Thinking right about God Israel thought that God hated them and was seeking their ruin (Deut 1: 27). Israel’s refusal to think right about God led them to rebellion and forty –year delay in reaching Canaan. No man can respond to God in love and gratitude if he is convinced that God is His enemy. Unexcelled in the earth, Job was stripped of his wealth and stood and bowed head and broken heart over the casket of his ten children. He was right when he declared, “the Lord hath taken away” (Job 1: 21). That was Satan’s action, not God. Job proceed to accuse God shooting him and arrows (6: 4) ; crushing and wounding him without cause (9: 17); laughing at the afflictions of the innocent (9: 23) ; breaking him like a life (13: 25); filling him with weariness and desolation (16: 7) and ignoring his desperate cries for help (19: 7) In all probability, Job’s view of God would have drowned him in despair had God not pierced heavens with corrective instruction. When nature runs amuck and life property lie twisted in its wake, such destruction is described as an “act of God “ A drunk driver closes the child in the sleep of death and the a father blames God for taking his son. From the bed of affliction, man looks up to God, whom he views as the source of his distress, and cries, “why me?” How can man serve God in love and gratitude when he believes He has robbed him home by fire, his health by disease, and his mate by death? “Every good gift and perfect gift is from above” (James 1: 17) God is the source of health, happiness, and life, not disease, despair, and death. Conversely, every negative thing about life is the result of the influence of Satan and sin in the world. It is imperative that we think right about God. Frank Chesser is the preacher for the Panama Street Church of Christ in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 11:53:41 +0000
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