“Mistaken Analysis”

Psalm 44: 23, 24: “Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not reject us forever. Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?” There are two things we learn from the Book of Job, which we are in the midst of reading from the MDR: One, sometimes bad things happen to good people; and two, God is always aware of the situation, has actually had His hand on it since the beginning, and will continue to keep it there until His purposes are fulfilled. Baal may be guilty of sleeping when his followers need him most (1 Kings 18: 27), but the Lord God will neither slumber nor sleep (Psalm 121: 4).