QUESTIONING GOD

QUESTIONING GOD

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Hebrews [ESV] chapter … do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

For, "Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

  Is it okay to question or disagree with Jehovah God Almighty?

  It depends.

  Eve, then Adam, did so. (Gen.3)

  Cain did so. (Gen.4:9)

  Abraham did so. (Gen.18:23)

  Saul did so. (1Sam.28:6)

  Hezekiah did so. (2Kin.20:1-3)

  Psalmist did so. (10)

  Psalmist Maschil of Asaph did so. (74)

  Psalmist Asaph did so. (77)

  Peter did so. (Mt.18:21)

  Nicodemus did so. (Jn.3:4)

  Jesus, His only begotten son, questioned Him. (Mt.27:46; Mk.15:34)

  I have done so.

  You have done so?

  Reviewing the above list of questioners we know the answers varied. How do we followers reconcile the variety to the immutability of God? (Heb.6:18-19)

  Is the answer the first question posed today found in Hebrews chapter 11?

  Or do you recognize the answer elsewhere in God’s Word and its application to life?

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