Today's encouragement comes from Romans 9:20, where we read these words:
"But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, 'Why have you made me like this?' "Though God would have His own sincere churched children be very gut-wrenchingly candid with Him, and tell Him everything in their hearts, and lay everything bare before Him—the Lord does *not* entertain complaints about *why* He has made people in one way or another.
Even when it comes to His sovereign election, (which is the immediate con-text of Rom. 9:20), we are not allowed to "reply against God." Of course, in reality, no one cares at all whether they please God, or not, until they are re-generated (or born again). Therefore, it is especially ill-suited for God's re-deemed people to quarrel with the Lord, as to why He elects some, and not others.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Without Christ's Spirit the soul is in confusion, with-out beauty and form . . . “ —Richard Sibbes, in, "The Bruised Reed"]
