God in Man's Court:Judging God, Justifying God.

God in Man's Court: Judging God, Justifying God.

3 True, some of them were unfaithful; but just because they were unfaithful, does that mean God will be unfaithful?

4 Of course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say about him,

“You will be proved right in what you say,

and you will win your case in court.” Romans 3 NLT

3 For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil in Your sight—
That You may be found just when You speak,
And blameless when You judge. Psalm 51 NKJV

Have you ever tried to judge God? OK, that sounds too strong, let me rephrase, have you ever questioned God over an issue in which you feel He could have done better because things didn't go the way you had expected, prayed or believed?

It seems we do that often, though mostly unconsciously. It is the basis of most people's unbelief, spiritual lethargy or even atheism. It's just like someone, a priest, head of a worldwide denomination, who got to the scene of the tsunami south East Asia, and purportedly wondered aloud if there was God who permits such things to happen.

But the scriptures seems to envisage God in man's court of judgement. David had referred to the scenario where God would be judged, as ridiculous as that sounds. How can the Creator of the heavens and the earth, of the spiritual and the physical, the all knowing, the all powerful and the ever present, be judged by this weak being who knows so little about things and hasn't even being able to conclude on how and why he and his world came to being, be able to question His Creator?

But God who made man the way he is, knows his tendencies. He made man a free moral agent with a freewill and certain degree of audacity. He was made to be able to choose either to go against the laws of his existence or to comply with them, made to either acknowledge and fear his creator or to despise and rubbish Him in his foolishness. And of course, the majority would rather choose not to acknowledge God. In that regard, the only thing man, probably has failed to postulate as hypothesis is that man actually created the universe or the multiverse. He has driven close to saying he created himself actually or what does he mean when he says, he evolved, as of evolution being intrinsic within him?

So, man can judge God and God wouldn't mind, actually. God made man in His own image and since God is Judge by nature, man too would display such instincts of being able to judge things, and God too can be a subject of man's judgment even with his limited knowledge.

And that's actually the issue here, knowledge plays a big role in being able to judge rightly. When Jesus Christ says we should not judge, He didn't mean we should throw away our ability to make decisions and to recognise errors. He was saying we should be ready to be judged with the same measure we used in judging others. If that would be dangerous which can lead to mistrials, then we better don't judge others at all. This is because we don't always have a complete knowledge of issues and it could bounce back on us. Lack of adequate knowledge is an handicap in passing truthful judgment. We may be sincere in judgement but not truthful and so we have to be careful.

In our inadequate knowledge and jagged picture of God that we have, we still try to judge God. That then leaves us with mistrials. Aside the fact that we don't often judge ourselves first. Man is so conceited, that he feels he's always perfect and God is the one who isn't. Oh, you'll quickly wonder where I got that from. Who ever says God's not perfect? You asked. Well, we say that every time we try to judge God. If He were perfect why would we ever put Him in the defense dock?

But then that's not where God's justification is. Some would want to justify God by default, while that's ok, because we agree that He is perfect and the definition of perfection as the standard, yet, God would want to be judged by His merits. He is justified in His sayings according to the scriptures we quoted.

He corrected Job and his friends through one of the friends, Elihu. And all God was saying is that He had done what is good for Job which was justified by the latter end of Job. Some other friends of his had wanted to exonerate God by fiat, and God wouldn't take any of that, just as He won't take Job justifying himself either.

God would proof Himself. Yet not on our terms but definitely through our unflinching faith in Him. He won't compromise that. If we conclude that He doesn't exist through unbelief or by experience, we are on our own...He won't proof Himself if our faith in His existence isn't concluded.

When He is judged, He will be found true. He does not do evil. If evil happens, He may have been sidelined and ignored. We sideline Him when we won't do our parts. We are burdened with the responsibility of finding out the laws and the resources provided for us by God to make life here liveable to its extent against all the forces that might work against us. Man was made to survive the universe but he must find out how. If he fails in that responsibility, it won't be God's fault anymore. He is justified whenever we judge Him.

An example is the rate of mortality among nations of the world. There are deaths that would have been averted were it in some other countries, yet we blame such deaths on God. The fact, that other humans have conquered such deaths, is justification for God in man's court of judgement.

Where was God when a terrorist group killed a priest? Then I will ask why the group won't try it in some other countries with better security systems? Many of the evils of the world are problems we can overcome, which actually have been overcome among some groups. We were created to dominate this world and we can and we have in many areas. Genesis 1:26&27.

If we act more like David, a man after God's heart, who knew that what had befallen Him wasn't God's fault but his, we will see God being justified more and more.

We often believe that we have no obligations in whatever happen around us. That sense of irresponsibility is what unfairly condemns God in our courts of judgment. But don't we have responsibilities in how we fare in this world? Obviously, we do. We have all that it takes to find out all that God has given us and to use it to the benefits to which God intended them to be to us.

Can you imagine that some adults in some countries don't know if its possible not to have electricity in one day? Yet some others in other parts of the world live in perpetual darkness and powerlessness with its terrible consequences. But God created electricity to serve humanity, so that they would be able to enjoy this world to the extent to which He planned it to be. So, if you don't have electricity and people live less than humans and die from its consequences, should such be blamed on God?

We have provisions both in the spirit realm and in the physical and there are laws and procedures by which we can access these resources to benefit us and support our existence here. These are the codes for our dominion over whatever evils are here on earth and if we won't discover, learn and apply these, we may not enjoy the fullness of all that God made for us to enjoy.

Don't let me bore you, if I'd not done that already. My heart is full of thoughts having just lost a friend. But let me close with this scripture that put the responsibility of so many of our failures right at our doorstep.

2. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. Proverbs 25

If God would be judged, it will be right to judge Him based on His responsibility and not on man's responsibility. God has the responsibility of providing things which He conceals, man has the responsibility of finding those things out. If a package is sent to you, it won't be the responsibility of the sender to open the package and use the items within, would it?

The word, 'kings' in Proverb 25:2 is instructive in showing that it isn't an individualistic effort that must discover those things that make for our peace, progress, development, dominion and enjoyment on the earth but a corporate and leadership responsibility, which finds out what things have been made available to subdue evil and create peace beyond greed on this present earth. If kings won't do it, they and their people will remain subservient to those kings who do it.

Does this mean that divine intervention within the purview of man's failures and prevalent evil won't be available? Not at all, His mercy will still come through and His promises, He will keep but we must also always seek to do our part for the world to be all that God planned for it to be.

Good morning!