Responding to the "Angry God" Perception

Do you see God as angry and vengeful, always ready to punish and judge? If this is you, then I would challenge you to take ten seconds to read Romans 5:6-10:

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. (NASB, 1995, emphasis mine)

Now, having read this description of God's disposition toward us, and having noted well the condition we were in at the time He acted, ask yourself this: is this the description of an angry, vengeful God? Does it match the perception of God that you have been holding on to all this time? Or is it just possible that your perception of God has been skewed? Be honest with yourself, now.