Dangerous Questions- Madison Flowers

Canto Twenty, Lines 25-30

“I leaned upon an outcrop of the bridge

And surely I wept; I wept so, that my guide

Said, “Even now, with all the other fools!

Here pity lives the best when it is dead.

Who is more wicked than the man who longs

To make God’s judgment yield to human force?”

This question in the last line stopped me in my tracks. Who is Dante to question God’s authority to punish His creation how He sees fit? Who is Dante to question God’s righteousness? Or maybe I should say, who am I to question God’s righteous judgment? I don’t know about you, but sometimes I will be reading through the Bible and I question some of the orders God gives His people while they are at war. Now I don’t mean I question His authority or His power or His ability to make all these things come to fruition. I just mean that sometimes when the Lord commands His people to ransack a village and He tells them to kill every living thing, children included, I wonder why (see the battle of Jericho in Judges 6). I mean, they are children after all, are they really that guilty?

But questioning the Lord is a dangerous game to play. If one is a Bible-believing Christ follower, then it is clearly stated that God is good (see Psalm 107:1; Psalm 145:9) and that God is righteous (see Psalm 7:11; Psalm 116:5). We must trust in the fact that He knows what He is doing, and it will all work out for the good of those who love Him and, most importantly, for His glory.

I’ll leave off with this verse for those of you like me, who always have questions.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Neither are your ways My ways, declares the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways

And My thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

-Isaiah 55:8-9



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