Friend, you overestimate yourself: For what are you or I compared to God?
For when we speak, we depict our topic in our words; when He speaks, His Word brings all creation forth from the nothingness. When man creates, he chisels statues out of stone; when God creates, he forms man out of the dust. When we paint, we fill our canvas with color; when God paints, the heavens are crowned with glorious rainbows and long-shining starlight. When men die, we bring only grief to our family and friends; when God died, He brought comfort to all those who would accept His loving-kindness.
We are nothing compared to God; He is greater than the galaxies, broader than the universe, brighter than the stars above, and more powerful than any force which we could ever hope to find. As Scripture teaches, Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power. And He does not by any means acquit the guilty. Jehovah has His way in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet. He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon withers. The mountains quake from Him, and the hills melt, and the earth is lifted up from before Him; even the world and all who dwell in it. (Nahum 1:3-5)
Do you understand the sheer greatness of God? Were He to take His finger and drag it across the earths surface in a moment of wrath, there is not a single high mountain or low valley which would be to you a safe refuge; the earth herself would melt before His touch, and you with it! Glory to God that His great power is balanced by His kind heart! We are nothing compared to His power; lower in comparison to Him than any ant is to us. You insult God by mocking Him as you do; for our God is not Sadist, but Savior! He who is greater than the universe, vaster than the expanse beyond the clouds, whose presence fills and upholds the whole of creation, thought it not beneath Himself to take up the mantle of human flesh along with all its weaknesses, that we might be saved.
Gods infinite kindness was displayed in the humble frame of the Incarnation, Jesus Christ; His love in that He who was without sin made Himself to become sin that we might be counted dead in Christ; His power in His conquest of death and the unfading hope Hes offered unto us. You would decry God as wicked, when you see Him through your own sin-tinted windows; you would assault the High Tower of Salvation and offend the Spirit of grace by which you have been saved by calling the Lord God unjust; but He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) God makes no unreasonable requests of men; He demands this and this alone, that all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. (Matthew 7:12) And yet no man obeys that one simple, golden rule. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory. (Romans 9:21-23)
God is God; we are man.
God is the divine Maker; we are the humble clay.
God is the Omnipotent One; you and I are the incompetent ones.
"Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you." (John 15:15-16) Perhaps, friend, you should remember that God's thoughts are as above your thoughts as the heavens are above the earth (Isaiah 55:8-9), and instead of questioning His kindness be contented with calling as many to the friendship of God as you can?
Your brother in the Kingdom of Christ, and fellowman in the Struggle for Sanctification,
Caleb