Have
you noticed that your computer is not perfect? I write the devotions
on a program called, “Open Office.” It has a dictionary with it
for the English language and alerts me when there is a misspelled
word.
It will underline the word in red indicating that the spelling does
not agree with that of the program. I used to rely on it a lot until
I discovered that it missed a lot of words. You as the reader of
these devotionals can testify that you have to interpret a lot as to
what I am trying to say due to incorrect spelling. We naturally
assume that mechanical devices can be programmed to do something over
and over again and to always do it the same way, but that is not
always the case. Genesis 18:25 says, “That
be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with
the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be
far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
In
this Scripture passage, Abraham is trying to reason with God about
saving the city of Sodom and states that if there be certain number
of righteous people present, He would not destroy the city. Abraham
mentions a rhetorical question to God in the final words of this
verse. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” The
obvious answer is, of course, the Judge of all the earth always does
that which is right. One could not come up with even ten righteous
people in the city of Sodom. The account bring to mind the fact that
God is always right and this is a point that we need to always be
reminded of in our present life. We may question God as to why He
made us a certain way, how come my nose wasn't prettier or maybe I
should have been a little taller than I really am. We can also
question God as to why certain people perish at young ages or why
there are calamities in the world that reap great havoc upon
civilization but in the end, we come up with the statement that
Abraham made so many years ago. “Shall not the Judge of all the
earth do right?” It is not just an argument for trying to have
saved Sodom, but it is also the same argument for every aspect of
your life. You may get up in the morning and wonder what God has in
store for you today and that same thought should come to the
forefront. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right by me today
in whatever He has planned for me? In the manner of Abraham, “yes.”
One man was asked how he made a sculpture of a horse. He simply
said that he chipped everything away that didn't look like a horse.
God is actively chipping everything away in our lives that do not
look like we are supposed to look. Some of the chipping may be
painful but we don't have the complete picture in mind as God does.
Philippians 1:6 reminds us of the work that God is doing in our lives
and that He will complete that work. When things go differently
than you had planned just remember that God is the Judge of all the
earth and whatever He does is right. He owns, created and maintains
all of it. Praise God today that He doesn't make mistakes.
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