Don’t Judge God

Many people are going about to judge God without realizing that they are doing so, and it is a very unwise and unprofitable practice to take up with. Just because we do not understand everything doesn’t mean that God is doing something wrong. I have often heard the ‘concern’ that so many have about the atrocities that take place in the world, along with all of the disease, famine, injustices, crime, poverty, etc. And these concerned folks always start questioning why God is allowing these things to take place, and why he isn’t “doing more about it.” Maybe they should read the Bible a little more, and believe what they are reading: “Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing” (Isa. 40:13-15). God has allowed man to know so very little, and I am talking about man who has experienced the love, and power, and knowledge of God. The apostle Paul, who I believe experienced revelation knowledge above anyone who has ever lived other than Jesus, called it like it is: “For now WE see through a glass, darkly” (I Cor. 13:12). And again, “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?” (Rom. 11:33-35). God is not obligated to give account to ANYONE about what he is doing or not doing, or why. People would do well to mind their own business, and to stay out of God’s business and stay out of his way. Anyone who has truly gone anywhere with God knows that they are nothing, that they know nothing, and that they are not in a position to question or try to evaluate God’s wisdom or his care for man. But those who have not learned this lesson are invariably going to fulfill the proverb from the book of Job: “For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt” (Job 11:12).

The little bit of knowledge that God has committed to my hands is what I am required to deal with, and rightly at that. Everything that I do NOT know, which is the far bigger part of the equation, is simply out of my jurisdiction, and I leave it alone until I do know it; if that time comes at all. My duty and calling, as well as yours, is to “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding” (Prov. 3:5). I trust that God is doing the right thing with everything that I do not understand, and that is quite good enough for me. When we see things, or experience things that are too much for us to grasp, and choose to lean on our own understanding about it, we will get into trouble. Because in doing so we are judging God to be wrong about something, and it is certain that he is not. It is just as certain that he is not pleased with the pride of man that would try in vain to “be his counselor,” or to “show him the way of understanding.” There is nothing wrong with humbly seeking God for answers to things that we do not understand, but there is everything wrong with the spirit that would question God’s wisdom, or his love, or his care for anyone at all. Isaiah put it about as well as it can be said: “Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?” (Isa. 45:9). I believe that man would do well to heed the wisdom of the Psalm of David, who was the highest ranking man in the earth when he wrote the following words: “LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child” (Psm. 131:1,2). I have to say, that sounds a WHOLE LOT like something that Jesus said, that I have experienced and found great comfort and rest in personally: “Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, AND become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Mat. 18:3). Amen.