DAILY MANNA TUESDAY MAY 12, 2020 – WHEN THE WICKED GOES UNPUNISHED!

DAILY MANNA

TUESDAY MAY 12, 2020

TOPIC: WHEN THE WICKED GOES UNPUNISHED!

TEXT:JOB 24:1-13

KEY VERSE: “Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them” (JOB 24:12).

 There are many things about God and His dealings that we seem not to understand. One of such is the spate of wickedness and atrocities being perpetrated by wicked people, and judgment does not seem to quickly catch up with them. Evils and crimes are committed in many places with impunity. The rights and privileges of the less privileged are forcefully trodden with no one to speak for them. And God seems to be silent!

 Many people wonder why God delays judgment on the wicked. They want Him to unleash His wrath as they observe all the wickedness going on in the world. This was the same question Job raised in our passage as he tried to show his friends that God was not punishing him for his sins as they thought.

 He pointed their attention to all the wickedness going on daily around them which they were quite aware of, and yet God seems to be silent about them. If God was punishing him for his sins, why then were all the wicked and terrible people around him in the society walking about free and judgment is not coming upon them, he queried.

 Many people have been tempted to think that God is not fair. In fact, there are people who have concluded that it is either that God does not exist or that He has abandoned the world to self-destruction. But the truth is, God's ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. He has set a time for everything and a day of judgment for every wicked person.

 Our attitude then is to have faith in His righteousness and justice. We cannot have a sense of justice more than the Almighty God. Let us leave the judgment of the wicked in His Hands and strive to maintain an upright life. He will certainly judge the wicked and reward the upright with good.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: God’s sense of justice will not overlook wickedness.

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 CORINTHIANS 15-16