Psalm 64
Have you ever felt that you should not bother God with your complaints?
That little voice says "God is far too busy (or possibly non-existent) to worry about the likes of you"
This psalm expresses David's complaint to God.
There is something quite liberating in the act of David complaining to God. On reading the Bible I find nothing that says life is fair!
David is worried about his enemies, but God will take care of them and the righteous will rejoice and take refuge in God.
One of the central tenets of Christianity is that Jesus Christ took the punishment for our sin and by his death on the cross he allowed us to become children of God the father.
Talk about unfair - effectively Jesus was the victim of a momentous miscarriage of justice. An innocent person was executed for a crime he did not commit.
The Bible is right - life very often is not fair, but Christians believe that Jesus - who we believe is God - suffered the most outrageous unfair day, beaten, flogged and crucified.
By all means then - let us tell God when life is unfair, but we must remember that God himself in the person of Jesus Christ had it far, far worse.
Have you ever felt that you should not bother God with your complaints?
That little voice says "God is far too busy (or possibly non-existent) to worry about the likes of you"
This psalm expresses David's complaint to God.
There is something quite liberating in the act of David complaining to God. On reading the Bible I find nothing that says life is fair!
David is worried about his enemies, but God will take care of them and the righteous will rejoice and take refuge in God.
One of the central tenets of Christianity is that Jesus Christ took the punishment for our sin and by his death on the cross he allowed us to become children of God the father.
Talk about unfair - effectively Jesus was the victim of a momentous miscarriage of justice. An innocent person was executed for a crime he did not commit.
The Bible is right - life very often is not fair, but Christians believe that Jesus - who we believe is God - suffered the most outrageous unfair day, beaten, flogged and crucified.
By all means then - let us tell God when life is unfair, but we must remember that God himself in the person of Jesus Christ had it far, far worse.
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