God's Judgments are True and Righteous
God is holy. He always does the right thing, and He never does the wrong thing in every circumstance. I know a lot of people would argue with that, because sometimes life seems unfair. However, God is the Only One who knows everything about all of us and about everything that is going on around us. Therefore, He can and does make the right decisions when He brings judgment or when He acts in mercy. We must not doubt the Lord in these things, but trust His heart of love to do the best for us. In the Tribulation time God will bring His judgment on those who have rejected Him to follow the Antichrist. One of the last plagues to be poured out will be when an angel turns all of the rivers and steams to blood. (Revelation 16:6,7) The people had poured out the blood of saints and prophets, so God gave them blood to drink. This was a righteous judgment, because they deserved it. The voice from the altar proclaimed for everyone that the judgments of the Lord God, the Almighty, are true and righteous. Let's decide not to reject this truth.
We are very limited in our ability to judge. We only have a certain capacity to reason things out, which is very limited. Our knowledge of the facts is very limited, too. Therefore, when we put the facts together that we know, and we try to reason through a particular situation, we often come to the wrong conclusion. Just think of how many times we are wrong, and we have to go back and ask for forgiveness or admit we messed up. We can save ourselves a lot of anguish if we will leave the judgments to the Lord. What we should do is take all of these things to the Lord in prayer and ask Him to show us the truth. We can also ask Him to explain His decisions to us, but He will not always tell us. In that case we simply accept His judgment, since it is so far superior to ours. Also, we look in the Bible for God's wisdom to show us what to do. Either way, we grow in our belief in the Lord, and we do what is right, because we do what He shows us. If we reject God and His ways, we set ourselves up for much heartache and failure. I pray we will not take that route in life.
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Tomorrow, I intend to read Revelation 17-19.