"The secret things belong to the Lord
our God,
but those things which are
revealed
belong to us and to our
children forever..."
Deuteronomy
29:29
As we journey through this life we will encounter many
unexplainable things which will make us question God. The eternal
"why's."
Job, a man grievously stricken with
tragedy, refused to question God, but friends of his came and
suggested all kinds of reasons why these calamities came upon him. At
the end of the story, God was angry with those friends because they
were wrong in their conclusions. In other words, we cannot always
know the reasons behind things because God's ways are far more
complicated than we have any idea. God sees with an eternal
perspective that we do not have, therefore we have to leave the
"why's" with him.
Job's amazing response:
"Naked
I came from my mother’s womb,
and
naked shall I return there.
The Lord
gave, and the Lord has taken away,
blessed
be the name of the Lord.'
In all this
Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.'"
Job
1:21-22
It is the pride and arrogance
of man to demand from God to know his reasons for things, with the
unspoken threat that if he doesn't reveal the reason, the conclusion
is that God is unjust. God has said that he is the God of justice, of
love, of faithfulness. Sometimes he allows bad things to happen to
good people, and he does not owe us an explanation. He wants
to know the attitude of our heart, whether we will judge him wrongly,
or whether we will believe in his INTEGRITY and trust him no matter
what.
Trust him. Satan didn't pass that test. Don't make the
same mistake.
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