Don’t put God into question: pray and your prayers will be answered.

“Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
⁹ Do you have an arm like God’s,   and can your voice thunder like his? Job 40: 8-9 NIV

Faced with multiple tragedies Job asked God,” Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?”(Job 10:3)

We deem it very unfair to see the innocent and righteous suffer while the wicked prosper. But God’s justice is different and we will never be able to understand wholly why he does what he does. Also who are we to condemn others as evil!? Nobody is righteous and beyond God’s amazing grace.  God our maker is also not done with us yet and daily he is molding us in line with his purpose for our lives. "Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'? (Isaiah 49:9)

Instead of questioning God, pray expecting your prayers to be answered and your hope rekindled.

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“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” Carl Barth

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