Quitting God?

Numbers 31-33

Have you ever wanted to quit God?  I asked my students that question today.  One said yes, when she gets caught up in trying to be perfect.  Another said yes, when bad things happen to loved- ones.   I actually did once.  I didn’t like the way Christians treated my Dad; so, I quit God for 12 years. 

At the beginning of today’s reading, chapter 31:17, it says that God said, “Now therefore kill every male among the little ones…” If you want to quit God, there’s a reason.  That verse made me cringe.  So what are we to do?  We can’t hide from the verse.  It’s there!  God understands how we feel?  Remember when God the Son needed God the Father more than any other time, at the point of His death and He cried out, “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”  Matthew 27:46.  God the Son felt like God the Father had quit Him. 

God can always handle us feeling as if we want to quit Him.   At times, no matter how you dice it, God is unfathomable.  I cannot understand how my eyes send electrical impulses through rods to my brain and my brain interprets it and I see my beautiful wife.  But I am not going to shut my eyes and quit.  Think of all the joy I would miss.