Do not dare to accuse God almighty
Often we mortal beings have a terrible habit of tending to comment on almost everything not being mindful of how our words can and even affect & hurt other people and especially those people who suffer from inexplicable and painful situations and happenings including death.
We always ignore God’s advice that we should talk less and less seeing that, as the Bible instructs in the book of Proverbs ‘in the multitude of words, there is no lack of sin’.
For instance, when our neighbors and ‘friends’ and even relatives suffer, we often tend to accuse them or even their parents and forefathers of having sinned against God and even their ancestors.
Many are the times we ascribe physical, emotional, psychological and even material lack to the supposed sins including lack of respect to parents and non adherence to cultural & community norms and practices.
Though some of the accusations bear some semblance of truth, we end up usurping the role and power of God almighty in judging others. Instead of condoling with the suffering and supporting them to overcome the tribulations, we add salt to open wounds and increase both physical and emotional pains. We do not practice the Godly command of becoming and remaining as our s sisters’/brothers’ keepers.
Moreover, such behavior & actions are increasingly promoting self righteousness and the attendant risk of always looking forward to seeing the wrongs, sins, weaknesses and evil et al in other human beings instead of engaging in own soul searching in order to avoid becoming self righteous and to become and remain better, God loving /fearing human beings..
As the Bible cautions us, we should always endeavor to see the log in our own eyes instead of only focusing on those in our brothers’ eyes..
Very sadly and unfortunately this terrible & despicable habit is not a preserve of ordinary citizens alone and is increasingly being seen in national elected leaders who tend to, daily, accuse each other of wrongs ‘which incidentally are anti progression and meant to destabilize the accusers’ efforts’.
So it is quite sad and retrogressive when a community leader foolishly stands before a congregation and falsely accuses God almighty, in a Church- related community event, of having killed a person because that person has, had sinned.
.. .. The wild imagination of the leader had perhaps convinced him that sins had /have been committed.
And sadly, some members in the attentive congregation laugh at the humourless, dry fallacy with none having the courage to disagree or disapprove.
The spiritual leadership in the congregation also somehow ignores the anomaly or terribly fears to question the message of the immensely wise and great leader of the people.
Such instances of such thoughts and their articulation to an attentive and apparently docile group perhaps bring to mind and to observers the adage that ‘leaders are often a reflection of the Society or community that elects such leaders’ and thus giving them the authority to lead amiss.
When such reckless thoughts and weird beliefs manifest in Society, it behovess the entire Society to appeal to God almighty to give them wise leaders whom He should also appoint and anoint.
Moreover, those vested with leadership responsibility and authority must also cry to God almighty for fresh and everlasting, everyday anointing to enable them lead and guide their people correctly in all possible ways for God’s greatest glory and honor.
