Have You Ever Been Mad at God?

Have you ever been mad at God? Job actually wants to file a lawsuit against God!

“If one wanted to take Him to court, he could not answer God once in a thousand times.  God is wise and all-powerful… I could only beg my Judge for mercy. If I summoned Him [to court] and He answered me, I do not believe He would pay attention to what I said… For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court. There is no one to judge between us…. I am on my own.” Job 9:3-4,15-16,32-33,35.

“I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. He set me up as His target… He has made me an object of scorn to the people. I have become a man people spit at.” Job 16:12-13; 17:6.

Job has plenty to complain about. He lost 10 children. But how can you take the King and Judge of the universe to court? What judge can hear that case? Only God himself.

But Job—writing the first book of the Bible—realizes what he needs, what we all need, and prophecies of the Messiah:

“I wish that someone might arbitrate between a man and God… Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate [attorney] is in the heights!… I know that my Redeemer lives and that in the end, He will stand upon the earth.” Job 16:21,19; 19:25.

What do we need when we are mad at God? We need Jesus, “our advocate with the Father” (1 John 2:1) who “ever-liveth to make intercession for us” Heb. 7:25.

Take your complaints to Jesus. He is your attorney and Redeemer, who spends his time arguing your case, interceding for you! Jesus understands your situation and constantly asks God the Father for mercy on your behalf.

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