Charging Foolishly???

No, I’m not going to talk about credit cards.  I want to talk about charging God foolishly.  If you remember Job, after being told that he had lost all his wealth and children, said:

The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

BUT we know the rest of the story, Satan is the one that did this to Job.

Yet the writer of Job, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit says, in reference to Job:

In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

BUT, in Chapter 38, God answers Job out of the whirlwind:

“Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.”

God then proceeds to question Job as to just who is he to question God. 

To help understand this seeming discrepancy, it is helpful to interpret this in light of James’ statement:

“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”

And Paul’s statement to the Roman’s:

“for by the law is the knowledge of sin”

Biblical scholars generally agree that the events recorded in Job, occurred prior to the giving of the law to Moses.  Job did not know the rest of the story.  WE DO!  Job spoke out of lack of knowledge, not foolishly.

We know that Satan did this to Job.  We also know the character of God, We have seen the Father through the life and ministry of his Son.  How many times have we charged God foolishly, having the truth been revealed to us in the WORD.  We question and charge God of doing things, or not doing things, things that are not consistent with the character of the Father as revealed through Jesus.  Too often, we interpret scripture filtered through our experiences, not through the entirety of the Word.

For the next several blogs, I want to discuss some things we need to consider before we charge God foolishly.