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God’s a real ‘devil’?

Posted by Mathew | 25 April 08

We look around us and see all the evil in the world and those incited by the mass injustice (whether personally against them, or against groups of others) brings with it a cursing of God. God’s the real devil of it all, apparently. After all, if He is as good and all benevolent as some believe Him to be, how can he let the things that have ravaged human history and cause pain and suffering to millions to this very day?

I was reading an address on this earlier today, and the following proverb was mentioned:

A man’s own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the LORD. (Prov 19:3)

This goes as much as to say that our own poor choices are the ones that make our life a living misery … and then we curse God for it! So, on one hand, the sinner says he wants to be independent of God but, when things go bad, we then blame God for not stepping in. Crazy.

Of course, we can also be made miserable by the wrong choices of others. And that’s where notions of injustice come in and its in those circumstances, perhaps, where we ourselves are more justified in crying out to God that He should have intervened. But if He does, is He not then still interfering with our free-will (well, somebody else’s, perhaps) - I think God loves us each too much to do that.

Yet, God is always in control. We look at the story of Job and we’re told that Satan’s hand is restricted. But the often amazing thing is that Satan is allowed some measure of a free-leash. So, is God the real ‘devil’, then, for giving Satan some leeway? Can’t our ‘hearts rage against the LORD’ in these circumstances?

I think the truth is, sin’s effects are well and truly advanced. During creation, God also created the framework of sin’s effects - that is, the results of sinning against God were already determined. But then we chose to sin … and those effects took their place. Sin is universal as a result. God is not going to reverse the rules that He setup when time began - His holiness/purity is at stake.

Collectively, man sinned. If we drink poison, God will certainly forgive us, but He’s no under obligation to reverse the effects of the poison.

Fortunately, God had planned His grand solution to the world’s evil. And that’s in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom there is life in abundance. Pray that you get to know him.

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