Why do we blame God when times get difficult, or accuse the Almighty when life takes us down a path that we lose meaning, or worse, experience things that hurt us?
The loss of a child, a failed marriage, betrayal, a life ending diagnosis, or plans for the future that never panned out. All of these things someone has faced or will face at some point in their life. But God will never be the reason for those events.
Even when Job faced his worst experiences in his life, not once did he lift his fist to heaven and blame God for his troubles, but he rightfully questioned where God was in all of his suffering. But yet he held God blameless.
I believe that when people blame God is because they can’t grasp the idea that God would allow them to suffer the hurt, or the betrayal, or the loss that occurred in their life. We fail to grasp the concept of individual freewill, and that sometimes people choose a path that is not God’s will or desire. In the case of divorce.
People tend to demand that no harm will come to their life or surroundings, and then, when bad things happen, they blame God for not having control over the situation. This is why I learned a very important lesson years ago about life and God, that God is not always in control.
That’s not to say that God is not omnipresent, he is, but we make decisions that bring reactions in this life, good or bad. We must deal with them when they come. But never accuse God for when they come.
God is love, he is our father, he wants the best for us. However, we live in a fallen world, a corrupted world because of sin. But God has promised that even in the most trying of situations that might or will come, he promises that if we trust him even when it hurts, he promises something new that will come, and he restores.
But God is never to be blamed.
[Christopher Gregory]
Proverbs 19:3 ... The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.
Romans 9:20 ... Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Galatians 6:5 ... For every man shall bear his own burden. ❤
