Please forgive me… it is rant and rave… vex and vent time… and if I withhold you can bet I won’t be able to get on with my study!!
Yes, what is it with certain Christians that they feel they are able to judge what God is doing in anothers life, as if they have the formula…and as if God works according to our human understanding?!

Now don’t get me wrong,

Can we understand what God is about? Yes, but with limits!

Can we learn his ways? Yes, but within limits!

Can we know why God did something? Or how our life turned out the way it did? Yes, but not in its entirety!

Just take a look at the book of Job - why did God do what he did? Did his friends understand his situation? Did his friends have insights into the workings of God? Well they thought they did but that turned out VERY wrong. They has their formula all sorted and declared that Job’s misery was a result of his sin and God’s judgement. The reality that we have insight into is that Job was blameless. His situation had nothing to do with judgement or sin. Even in the book of Job we never read that he got answers to his questions – we never fully understand what God was up to – but one thing was for sure – God was doing something!

God has certainly revealed important things about himself, his ways, his character, but if anything he has surely shown us (through Scripture, through Jesus etc) that we cannot presume to fully know what God is about. His character DOES NOT CHANGE, but surely his WAYS DO?!

So perhaps us Christians should learn that life is not so simple, that we best refrain from our judgements – not simply because we may be wrong, but because it hurts!! When we judge anothers circumstances, we judge from a one-sided bias… based on our own limited experiences of God, the world, relationships. When we judge another, we show lack of love, understanding, compassion, neighbourliness…

At least if we’re going to judge – perhaps keep our mouth shut in the process – I would certainly benefit from that?!!

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