The Lord said to Job, “Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? You are God’s critic, but do you have the answers?”
Job 40:1-2
Ever had a leaky faucet? If so, you may be aware that ignoring even a small leak can prove costly.
When it comes to experiencing God’s peace, there’s another slow drip that can cost you plenty—a habit of blaming God.
Some of us engage in the practice so regularly we barely notice we are doing it.
Whenever something goes wrong, we ask why God allowed it.
God does invite us to inquire, seek to understand, call upon Him, and express our hearts 💕in truth and sincerity. However, there is a difference in asking with the motive of understanding how to respond to unpleasant situations and blaming God as the cause of the situation.
This question was asked in the media. Shortly after Princess Diana died in an automobile crash, Philip Yancey received a call from a television program. “Can you appear on the show?” the producer asked. “We want you to explain how God could possibly allow such a terrible accident.”
Philip had his own questions: “Could it have had something to do with a drunk driver going ninety miles an hour in a narrow tunnel? How, exactly, was God involved?”
Many people have publicly blamed God for mistakes they made. A boxer throws a deadly punch that killed his opponent and made this comment after throwing the punch that killed another boxer: “Sometimes I wonder why God does the things he does.”
And what about the young woman who was dating a man and became pregnant. And was devastated! She asked God, ‘Why have You allowed this to happen to me?’”
Huh? Whatever happened to taking personal responsibility?
You and I may not be guilty of such irrationality, but we may blame God for bad things that happen simply because we live in the midst of a fallen world.
Blaming God is a surefire way, not of experiencing more of his peace, but of draining every last drop of it from our lives.
Human choices have consequences, the world 🌎we live in, has evil systems that governs it, people are mostly good innately but there are lots of people with evil heart 🖤and their actions may impact you.
There are times God by His sovereign designs allow unpleasant experiences to occur in your life but He will always sustain you through it.
Until our perspective change to see and understand things from God’s vintage, we may continue to struggle with the Why Attitude and suffer the cost of losing our Peace.
Prayer 🙏🙏🙏
Father, I don’t know why you allow certain tragedies to happen. Help me to stop trying to answer the unanswerable and to focus instead on how I can respond in the midst of such tragedies.
Shalom.