Very much God Himself

The LORD is a jealous and avenging God;
The LORD takes vengeance and is filled with wrath.
The LORD takes vengeance on his foes
            and maintains his wrath against his enemies.
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power;
The LORD will not leave the guilty unpunished.
His way is in the whirlwind and the storm,
            and clouds are the dust of his feet.  Nahum 1:2-3 (NIV)

Jesus is God. 
When Jesus was on the earth as the biological son of Mary, the wife of Joseph, He was God. 
Before Jesus created the universe and the world and all that is in it, He was God. (John 1:3, 10)
Jesus always is God.

When you read a verse or passage in the Old Testament and it uses the word "Lord," it is not improper to think, "Jesus." 

God is not some separate being that dwells in pristine, perfect, spit-shined heaven who sent His 'almost' God or 'sort of God' son, Jesus, to do a bunch of dirty work - like dying on a cross as a sacrifice for sin. 
Jesus is God.
God came here and got dirty and bloody and became sin for us.  Jesus did all of that. Jesus is God!

The ideas and imagination of calvinists have converged to compose a portrait of a being that is 'GOD' and a person who is Jesus...'almost God.'  Sinners and reprobates (reprobates are 'sort of human' beings who could never be anything but wicked, worthless trash) are punished and burned by 'GOD' but some of them are rescued by Jesus...well, 'sort of ' - they had already been pre-selected to be saved and Jesus did something to make that 'sort of ' become real.  It's all very confusing - impossible to accept with childlike faith...
If the calvinist ideas are correct, then Jesus didn't behave very much like the 'sort of God' that he was supposed to be.  Jesus did not affirm the pre-selected (Luke 14:16-18) in their positions of perfection.  He argued with them, yelled at them, cursed them ("brood of vipers...sons of the devil") and beat some of them deliberately.  How in the world can we explain the actions of Jesus who forgives reprobate, adulterous women and beats up on pompous, perfect, pre-selected Pharisees? (John 1:11)  Jesus didn't act very much like the 'GOD being' that calvin-followers keep trying to inflict upon Christianity.  Shouldn't Jesus have known who his real enemies were; after all, he prayed enough to keep in touch with the plan of 'GOD.'

Jesus is God.
Maybe the day will come when calvin-followers will get that through their thick skulls.

What Jesus does, God does, has already done, and always is doing.
Loving.
Calling to humans that are lost in sin and misery.
Dying on a cross to fulfill the plan that He and the Father had made to establish salvation for his people in time. 
As long as a person is alive in time, that human can hear the voice of God Himself calling from a bloody cross, "I am the way!"  Any other way turns away from Jesus and turns toward rejection, wrath and enmity where the voice of Jesus fades and love only applies to self.

Come to Jesus.
Come to the Cross.