Why God?

Those that David saw didn’t seem to give a thought to their eternal destiny. They lived for the “here and now”. No thoughts of Heaven brought concern to their hearts as to whether they would go there or not. No thoughts of the flames of Hell filled their minds for they were totally ignorant of its existence. They were able to go through life carefree and worry free concerning the condition of their eternal soul.

Even though they lived in total oblivion to the ways of the Lord, there seemed to be no present consequence of their ignorance about God. God did not strike them with a great plague, cast a bolt of lightning at their heads, bring great storms of judgment upon them, or any such thing. It was as though God just ignored their sin and let them go on and on.

David said that it was his observation that they just lived their entire lives with just as much, if not more healthy bodies and successful lives and with worldly prosperity that often exceeded even those who lived for the Lord.

How could this be? Why are they not more sickly because of the power of sin? Why is not their wealth destroyed or wasted more than those who work hard to earn a living and then give great portions of their earnings to the Lord’s work? Where is the equity in this God? Why don’t you step in and do something about it and make life a bit more fair?

Not only were they just as blessed, or more blessed than God’s people, it seemed that for many of them, they just didn’t have to work nearly as hard to get what they had. It was as though they could do everything wrong and still get the best that life had to give while God’s people struggled and fought, scratched and toiled for even the smallest of blessings.

Because they seem to get away with their sin, those who live that way wear their pride in their own self-gratifying accomplishments about their neck like a chain and rattle it in the face of every Christian, and in the face of God Almighty as if to say, “we don’t need God; we are our own God. We can do whatever we want; accomplish whatever we want; and we don’t need a bunch of rules and regulations from a God who doesn’t seem to care anyway.”

They are engulfed in the “Pride of Life” and they are ever searching for anything that will lift them up in the eyes of other men. They don’t want to hear anything about having a meek and quiet spirit. Their pride won’t allow them to recognize anyone or anything that is greater than themselves.

Their own self-reliance and the fact that they are able to get away with sin convinces them that they will never be judged and so there is no limit to the violence that they will do to other people to get what they want. They will steal from the poor, kill the defenceless, take hope from the hopeless, and scheme to have it all for themselves.

Why God? Why do you allow them to have such pride and get away with it? Why doesn’t your Word come to pass that says in Proverbs 16:18, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." I thought that your Word would never fail! Why doesn’t it work now?