Before I criticize someone else’s policies, procedures, or systems; I ask myself, “Do I have a better way of doing things?” If the answer is, “No,” I keep my criticism to myself because whatever the other person is doing could be, for all I know, the best way to do things.
For example, if I decided to criticize God for the way He runs the world, I would ask, “Do I have a better way of sustaining life on Earth?” The answer is, “No,” so I would not make a dim-witted comment blaming God for starvation. But, I’m not a Humanist.
“John, you jerk!!! God is supposed to be all powerful and all loving!!! Yet, he allows children to starve!!!! He doesn’t get a free pass for that!!!! YOU MORON!!!!”
I’m not going to bother asking if you know how to end hunger. I know you don’t. I also know that any solution you propose will require God’s assistance. You can’t make wheat grow. You can’t make fish from scratch. You can’t construct eggs. You can’t build fruit trees or corn stalks. You can’t produce the nutrients to feed yourself, let alone all those starving people you’re so angry about.
God feeds you. On top of that, God feeds billions of other people. On top of that, God feeds trillions of animals, birds, and insects. On top of that, God feeds the countless micro-organisms that make life possible. Do you have any idea how many living creatures ‘starve’ every second of every day?
You don’t.
But even if you were able to calculate the number of lives that ended before you finished reading this sentence, there is NOTHING you can do to keep them alive. You are powerless to give or sustain life. God alone does that.
God put the breath in your lungs that you are using to curse Him. That seems unwise to me but, again, I’m not a Humanist. I don’t have a better way of feeding this planet than the method that God is using. So…I’m keeping my criticism to myself.
(Matthew 6:26) Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
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WISE!
JOB 42
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Then Job answered the Lord and said,
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“I know that You can do all things,
And that no thought or purpose of Yours can be restrained.
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“[You said to me] ‘Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge?’
Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
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‘Hear, please, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct [and answer] me.’
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“I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear,
But now my [spiritual] eye sees You.
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“Therefore I retract [my words and hate myself]
And I repent in dust and ashes.”