If I believe God made me, I shouldn’t be mad if God kills me

People who believe in the doctrine of creation – that God created everything and runs it all – sometimes get cranky when God ruins their lives. Consider Job: he never cheated anyone and had built a reputation of a man with a spotless conscience. But God nearly killed him. Most of us side with Job – how could God ruin such a life?

But Job said this:”The LORD has given and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD” (1:21). In other words, if I believe God made me, I shouldn’t be mad if God kills me.

“What do you have,” Paul wrote, “that you did not receive?” (1 Cor. 4:7). I don’t know of a more difficult truth to grasp. My car feels like its mine. My life feels like it belongs to me – I command my own fate, thank you very much. That’s what I speak from one side of my mouth and yet from the other side I confess, “God made me; everything is from him, to him and through him; all belongs to God.”

All I’m saying is that if I really believe God owns everything, it shouldn’t ruffle me when He takes some of it away – after all, I own nothing. And if I really believe God made me, then I won’t be mad if God kills me – after all, I’m not my own, I was bought with a price, right?

One Response to “If I believe God made me, I shouldn’t be mad if God kills me”

1. Kylie Batt says:

   May 24, 2010 at 6:45 am

   Я извиняюсь, но, по-моему, Вы не правы. Могу отстоять свою позицию. Пишите мне в PM….

   People who believe in the doctrine of creation – that God created everything and runs it all – sometimes get cranky when God ruins their lives…..