Pastor John,
I was listening to an old lesson on the book of John on YouTube tonight when a remembrance of a conversation with a relative was brought to my mind. She was telling me about a friend who left Catholicism and went to Buddhism because she couldn’t believe God would or should allow babies to be killed, nor the innocent to be harmed. I had reminded her of the flood and other times when God killed babies and children. I told her God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. He is not a big one of us. And I ended with God is always right. Then tonight, suddenly, this thought was put in my head when I was not even really thinking about this: “What makes us think God would reverence our children more than His own Son? Didn’t He allow His own Son to be killed by men who hated Him?” I have never thought about it that way. It puts a different light on it. I can see the truth in it, though.
Mark W.
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Hi Mark.
I agree with you, Mark. The God of the Bible who fully revealed Himself in Jesus Christ is perfect in all His ways — and His ways are far superior to ours. That is why we need the Spirit that Jesus suffered for us to have. It teaches us God’s ways and gives us His thoughts.
God is love, just as the apostle John said, and He has always been love. That means that when He rained fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah, and when He destroyed the entire human race except for eight souls in the ark, He was still love. And as we have seen in the book of Job, God is accountable to no one for His actions.
Our part is only to submit to His Son, and be faithful. And we willingly do that only when we understand that, regardless of how it may appear to the human mind, every act of God is entirely perfect in every way.
Thank you for writing, brother.
Pastor John