My friend sent me this today and I wanted to pass it on.
Charging God with wrongdoing
(Thomas Watson, "A Divine Cordial" 1663)
"It is the Lord's will. Let Him do what He thinks best." 1 Samuel 3:18
One who genuinely loves God, interprets all His dealings in the best sense. Though He afflicts sharply--the soul takes all well.
This is the language of a gracious spirit: "My God sees what a hard heart I have, therefore He drives in one wedge of affliction after another--to break my heart. He knows how full I am of the cancer of covetousness, or the swelling of pride, or the fever of lust--therefore He gives me bitter remedies, to save my life. This severe dispensation is either to mortify some corruption--or to exercise some grace. How good is God, who will not let me alone in my sins--but smites my body to save my soul!" Thus genuine piety puts a good gloss upon all God's afflictive dealings. It is Satan who makes us have high thoughts of ourselves, and hard thoughts of God.
"Take away everything he has--and he will surely curse You to Your face!" Job 1:11
"Then Job fell to the ground in worship and said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.' In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing." Job 1:20-22
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