““If God’s so powerful and so good, how come bad stuff happens?”I’m not going to answer the question until you ask it correctly. Here’s how you ask that question properly. You look me in my eyes and you ask me this: how on earth can a holy and righteous God know what I did and thought and said–only yesterday–and not kill me in my sleep last night?Until you ask that question that way, you don’t understand the issue. You believe the problem is “out there”. You believe that there are somehow some individuals who–in and of themselves–deserve something other than the wrath of Almighty God. You need to flip the script and ask the question this way: “Why is it that we are here today, why has He not consumed and devoured each and everyone of us? Why, O God, does Your judgment and Your wrath tarry?” When you ask it that way, you understand the issue. When you ask it the other way, you believe in the supremacy of man. “How dare God not employ His power on behalf of almighty men!” You flip the question around, you believe in the supremacy of Christ. “How dare I steal His air, because the last breath I took, I borrowed it from Him.”The problem… is you. That you do not acknowledge the supremacy of Christ. The problem is you start with you as the measure of all things. The problem is you judge God based upon how well He carries out your agenda for the world. And you believe in the supremacy of you. And as a result, you want a god who is omnipotent, but not sovereign. If you had a god who omnipotent but not sovereign, you can wield his power. But if your God is both omnipotent and sovereign, you are at His mercy.”
— Voddie Baucham
