One of the great errors of modern man is that he thinks he can put God on trial.
We speak as though God must answer to our moral intuitions, our emotional reactions, our preferred version of fairness. We ask, “How could God do this?” or “How could God command that?” as though God stands beneath a higher law and we are the judges qualified to measure Him.
But God is absolutely sovereign.
He is not merely powerful. He is not merely the strongest being in the room. He is the source of reality itself. He is the standard of goodness, the giver of life, the judge of all flesh, and the final court of appeal.
There is no moral tribunal above God.
This does not mean God is arbitrary or evil. It means His goodness is not borrowed from somewhere else. God is not good because He conforms to an external moral code. God is good because HE IS.
That is why man’s accusation against God merely reflects his arrogance. We take our limited perspective, our inconsistent moral standard we fail to ground, our fragile emotions, and our ignorance of eternity, then presume to judge the One who sees the end from the beginning.
People accuse God of injustice while failing to ground justice itself. They want to borrow moral authority from God’s order while denying God’s absolute right to rule that world. They want objective good and evil, but they do not want the sovereign God who is Goodness itself and the judge of evil..
God is not a defendant in your moral court. You are the defendant already convicted in His moral court.
The question is not whether God can justify Himself before man. The question is whether man can justify himself before God. And the answer is no — except by mercy.
That is why the proper posture before God is not accusation, but surrender. Not “explain Yourself to me,” but “Your will be done.”
God is not accountable to our moral intuition.
Our moral intuition is accountable to God.
Job 40:8 (ESV):
Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
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