With all the sickness and death surrounding the coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic that the world is currently in the midst of, I find a comment on Facebook that seems to be placing the blame squarely on God’s shoulders. His logic went something like this … ‘if God is omnipotent, then he must not care. But if God is all-caring than he must not be omnipotent.’ His rationale for saying this is that if God really did love his creation and was everything the Bible says he is, then why must we suffer thru this terrible ordeal?
It’s interesting to me that the onus falls on God and not sinful man. And that’s pretty much what I said to him. Man got us into this mess, not God. God gave man a free will to do as he pleases and we can see the results of that decision all around us every day. It is much easier to blame someone, anyone else for a problem then accept at least partial blame yourself. God isn’t obligated to do anything for us … nothing at all, but it is his desire to take care of us because of his love for us.
There is a natural progression of things in God’s economy. The end of times is approaching us. A reckoning is coming and will not delay; however, until that time we wait. The prophet Habakkuk speaks these words on behalf of his Lord: Habakkuk 2:3-4 New Living Translation (NLT) “This vision is for a future time. It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed. “Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.”
“God will wait to bring an end to it all? We don’t know. But God does, and it seems clear he has simply chosen not to fully explain why he has allowed evil, suffering, pain, and death to last as long as it has.”* Death is a natural part of our life cycle. Sometimes it comes too soon, sometimes not, but it is always done in accordance with God’s ultimate plan for the world he created. I don’t have an answer for every single seeming injustice that comes down the pike, but I know what I know about God and will trust him over man any day of the week. I’m not sure why man has this penchant for pointing a finger of blame in someone else’s direction. I mean it HAS to be someone’s fault, doesn’t it? Until next time, walk with the King and be a blessing! Rlkeller
* WHY DOESN'T GOD STOP SUFFERING? By Sean McDowell.
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