They all condemned Him as worthy of death. — Mark 14:64
I think all of us know that we don’t have a right to judge God. Yet, made in God’s image, we are constantly making moral evaluations about our experiences. We must do that in order to avoid sinning. So what happens when God does something that seems to violate our sense of what is right?
It helps me to remember that we judge God because our minds, our hearts, our lives are too small to take in His purposes, His goodness, His love. That’s one reason why God gives us the gift of eternal life — He knows that we cannot completely know Him without it.
It also helps me to remember that while the core of who I am as a child of God is in perfect agreement with the Father, parts of my mind are not. This is where honesty comes in. Rather than burying my anger so that resentment against God is allowed to smolder deep inside, I just tell Him what’s happening inside. He knows anyway.
Our anger toward God is always based on a lie. So every time we feel like condemning God, God is giving us an opportunity to get to know the truth about Him. When we bring to God our anger toward God, when we offer it up recognizing that we are powerless to change our minds unless and until God shows us what we need to know.
And, as Job learned, we don’t always need to know the answers. We just need to know that Somebody bigger than us has the answers.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
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