“Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.” - Job 21v22
Once again Job was confronted with friends who were trying to declare for themselves what God was doing. All of them were convinced that God was doing what He was doing because of something Job had done.
Job did not know why he was going through what He was going through. He knew that he did not know the reason. Job’s friends did not know either. The difference was that they did not know that they did not know. Because of that they put themselves in God’s place acting as though they could explain why God was acting the way He was.
There seems to be a trend today to claim that God is acting when disasters strike. The tsunami was supposedly God’s action on the Muslim population. Hurricane Katrina was God’s judgement on New Orleans for sponsoring a gay pride festival. 9/11 is supposed to be God’s judgement on America for turning against Him and His principles.
No one can know the mind of God. We are out of place when we attribute acts to God that may or may not be His.
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