It's been a long time since I posted.....so busy isn't even the word. However, I had this random thought pop into my mind yesterday and it stems from a quote I heard from a random video clip I saw. The person asked, "Why does God let men, women and children get murdered and He does nothing about it." This is in lieu of the senseless attacks Hamas has done against Israel lately and the question has resonated throughout history every time atrocities take place in society. When wars, public shootings, genocides, accidents and anything involving innocent people captures the medias attention, we rally and sympathize and try and make sense of the whole situation. When senseless death happens, naturally we look to the one in command. Some hit their knees and pray, others wag their fingers to the skies and blame God for not stepping in.
We hear it every time when stuff like this happens, "If God is real then why did He allow those kids to be murdered?" With a person that doesn't understand God, that question is valid. You see, to be God, you must create rules and abide by those rules. Here on Earth, we see rules made and we see those rules broken everyday. If the speed limit is 60 and we do 65, most of the time there are no consequences. However, if in a trial where our lives are judged by whether or not we followed speed limit signs, then we would be guilty and be sentenced accordingly. Even if we broke it by 1 mile per hour over, we still broke the limit.
What if the judge broke the same limits set by the law he is supposed to up hold? Can he be a valid judge if he is involved in the same crime you have been in? This is the crux of the situation. For God to be all good, He cannot break a single rule set by Himself. Can we say God allows free will? Is this a rule of His? If it is a rule, then He cannot break it. He cannot step in and stop anything without permission from that person. Of course this is only a simple example and we can argue the far reaching implications till the end of time.
Who can say they know how God works? Who can judge the judge and be correct in their assessments? We only see bits and pieces of the whole puzzle. We see tragedy but we never see victory and in tragedy we blame yet in victory we take the credit. We are like the judge that speeds. We look down upon those that do bad yet we do bad as well which makes us all hypocrites. Can we then blame God for not stepping in to save lives when we curse people for cutting us off in traffic. Words kill just as swiftly as a gun or a sword.
God is not worried about our bodies and what happens to it. You might find that appalling but time and time again, the Bible states that God is after a man's heart. His heart resides in his soul not in his body. Therefore, the body is of no consequence when it comes to our eternal lives. God knows our soul lives forever and that forever is a long time to be bitter or sad or mad or filled with hate or the hundreds of maladies that can infect our souls and damn us forever in darkness. Hell is not a place of torture from demons, Hell is a place where our unsatisfied souls dwell torturing itself forever. If you have an addiction without a body to feed it, then you can crave that addiction but never satisfy it. If you are nervous and stressed, then you stay that way forever. Earth points out your issues and you have a choice to make. Continue your torture or draw near to the one who can quench your thirsts and hunger.
If we are consumed with the worry of how our bodies are treated, then we've missed the point of the cross. Our bodies will die yet our souls live on. Why worship the body when it is at best around for 75-100 years? So when we see people killed, we must wonder, did they know God before they fell asleep? If not, there's the real tragedy. If they did, pain only last for a moment, then they are with Him. Can we not be tortured over the hearts of those doing the killing? They are lost and they are full of hate. They will die and continue with their hate forever.
Like the judge of those speeding, can a judge truly judge those killing with weapons when he uses words to kill their souls. A murderer judging a murderer, yet we don't see it as such, so we bend God's rules and we fall farther from Him and justify our actions by judging the judge. When we assume the role of a corrupted judge we feel we can judge the God of all.
How can we stand so arrogantly and fly in the face of the Almighty by prosecuting him from our darkened hearts. We have no right to judge Him from our minuet perspective as it never provides the true and full picture of what is going on in Heaven and Earth.
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