The Lord Jesus was wrongly accused of blasphemy when He said He was one with the Father. Today the world still accuses God of the wrong He never did. I always like to use the example of a house where there’s a young girl serving as a maid. Whenever anything goes wrong in that house, it’s always that girl that’s responsible. “Who stole the shoes?” Margaret. “Who broke the plates?” Margaret. Everything that happens wrong in the house is Margaret’s fault.
This is how ignorant people accuse God of everything that goes wrong in the world. “Who caused the bomb blast?” God! “Who caused the plane crash?” God! “How about the earthquake?” “God, of course!” they’re quick to say. Some even ask, “If there’s a God, why are so many people suffering? Why did He allow my child die?” They speak railing accusations against God for atrocities He never committed. Even in the Church, there are some who accuse God of plaguing them with sickness or taking their loved ones away from them. They say, “God gives and He takes away. Glory be to His Name for everything.” Actually, such Christians have never discovered who God truly is. If they knew Him, they wouldn’t accuse Him that way; for God does not work with the devil’s tools of calamity and destruction.
How can God give you a child and still be the one to take that child away? How can God make you happy today and sad tomorrow? How can He make you rich today and bring you into poverty tomorrow? What kind of God is that? That’s definitely not the God I serve! The Bible says the blessing of God – the One I serve - makes rich and adds no sorrow with it (Proverbs 10:22). The gifts and calling of God are without repentance (Romans 11:29). Whatever He does remains forever and all He does is good.
“So if God didn’t do all the terrible things people accuse Him of, who did them?” you ask. One person only – Satan the thief, liar and murderer. But thank God, Jesus has been manifested to destroy all his evil works.
