Not Offended
This won’t take long.
You can read these words in less than 2 minutes. The idea behind them can guide you for the rest of your life. It’s about a word. We seldom use it. Perhaps there are many who do not even know its meaning. The word is inscrutable. It’s not a word in my vocabulary. Perhaps you feel the same.
Both of us should know the word.
We should understand the word.
Synonyms for inscrutable are: unfathomable, unknowable, inexplicable.
Now for the idea to guide us both for the rest of our lives.
God is inscrutable. He is unfathomable. No human can really know God. God cannot be explained.
A second truth rides with the first.
It is unwise to blame God when things happen which we cannot explain.
Perhaps one of the greatest accusations we lay at the feet of God is found in this statement: “A loving God would never let this happen.” THIS…you fill in the blank…death, trial, heartache, suffering, great injustice-all fit in the category of THIS.
But I say to myself and you: God is inexplicable, unknowable, unfathomable. It is unwise for us to lay blame on God for the things in life we believe HE should never allow. God IS love. God is perfect in righteousness and justice. But He is inscrutable. We are wise to remember that.
It may help us to cease blaming God. It may help us to turn to God in time of trouble-not away from Him because we are offended that being God He did not seem to act favorably in our behalf. There is never any reason for us to blame God. He is with us. He is for us. And He is inscrutable.
Jesus reminds us of something we forget in troubled times when it seems God has turned His back on us. He reminds us not to feel insulted or outraged when God is silent. Jesus uses the word offended. How many people in this world have felt offended because God did not act in the way they wanted?
Trust.
Put your hope in God.
He is God, you are not.
To be offended at God is unwise.
Remember the words of Jesus instead.