Have I Dared To Judge God?

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
 “Who is this who darkens counsel
By words without knowledge?  Job 38:1-2

The question is sure to come up during this virus crisis: why did God let him/her die? 

Jesus our Lord spoke of not worrying over things that we need, for God takes care of the birds and the flowers which neither plant seeds nor harvest crops. Then a separation comes to us. A loved one is lost. Someone says, "He's in a better place now!" So why did we say that he is lost then? The point I am fumbling and bumbling toward is this: looking down at the dead body, how do we judge that God did not take the best and most tender loving care of the deceased, and is not even now doing so in that better place? Have I dared to judge God when I call the deceased lost? 

Like Job, we start blubbering toward an answer at this point. "I meant 'lost to me', not lost forever," and then we realize that the separation is only temporary and that our loved one is by no means lost who has believed in Christ the Lord. We will mourn those who pass in this time, as we have done before and will after. We also rejoice in the Lord for those who are called home to Him. And let us not see death as a criticism of God, when it was man's rebellion that brought death into the world. 

Great is our Lord, who has overcome death and the grave for us!

Bucky