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Knowing God
By Rev Dale Lee
“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25, KJV)
Since it is impossible for an Almighty, Everlasting, Infinite, All-Wise God to fail, we might well ask “what has gone so wrong on planet Earth and what is to become of this world and human life upon it?” If we don’t believe that God created this world for some purpose, we will have to agree with C. S. Lewis, who, writing about the incomprehensible meaninglessness of life before he became a Christian: “All stories will come to nothing: all life will turn out in the end to have been a transitory and senseless contortion upon the idiotic face of infinite matter.” By almost all appearances this world is unsustainable, and is hurling toward self-inflicted destruction. This world seems doomed to continue in a state of discord, deformity, and hateful and dreadful confusions. Is the end near?
Pastor Jonathan Edwards reminds us that this world was created by God Who had a purpose for its existence. God can either continue this world as it is, alter it by powerful intervention, or destroy it. Something seems to be terribly amiss. Edwards writes: “Often the wicked prosper, and are not in trouble as other men. They become mighty in power and it has been so in all ages. They have been uppermost in the world. They are mounted on thrones while the righteous remain in cottages. And in this world the cause of the just is not vindicated. Many wicked men have the righteous in their power and trample them underfoot and become their cruel persecutors; and the righteous are oppressed and suffer all manner of injuries and cruelties, while the wicked live, and reign in great power and prosperity.”
Abraham asks God what he himself needed to know as he interceded for the righteous living in the doomed city of Sodom. Two important truths are contained in his query: First, God is the Judge of all the earth. The Scriptures teach us “Surely He is God who judges in the earth”(Psalm 58:11); “But God is the Judge: He puts down one, and exalts another” (Psalm 75:7); “For He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth”(Psalm 96:13). Second, God the Judge will do right, right by His standard, not ours. There will be no miscarriage of justice with the Almighty. The Lord God, the Judge of all the earth will do right.
And when He does, all wrongs will be punished, all objections silenced, all questions answered, all righteousness rewarded. Eventually there will even be a new heaven and a new earth. This story will conclude when and how God has written it. For it is impossible that an Almighty, Everlasting, Infinite, All-Wise God can fail.