I was watching YouTube shorts with my husband the other day, and there were a couple about people asking this question: “Why would you worship a God who ____?” That blank can be and is filled with any number of things; but these two videos filled that blank with things written in the Bible. One was, “Why would you worship a God who encourages slavery?” This was in reference to Exodus chapter 21. The second was, “Why does your God tell Moses to sleep with 32 little girls?” This is in reference to Numbers chapter 31.

Both of these are examples of pieces of the Bible being taken out of context.

I won’t pretend to fully understand the concepts in the old stories, the Old Testament, because I don’t.

What I do know is that God is the only true judge for a reason. He is the only one who knows the heart, the mind, the intent, the desire of every human being who has existed, exists, or will exist. God is just because He makes a way for accountability and then holds us accountable. See, that’s the part us, as born-sinners, don’t like. Whether we don’t like that we ourselves are being held accountable, or we don’t like how someone else is held accountable.

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But it’s not up to us.

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Isaiah 55:8-9

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 33:22

“For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.”

2 Corinthians 5:10

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”

James 4:12

“There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?”

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”

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God is the only one who knows all.

Therefore, God is the only one who can judge all.

We don’t have to understand; we have to trust.

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“Why do you worship a God who ____?”

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Because regardless of what happens in this world, I know He is the one true God who has prepared a place where “_____” doesn’t happen. I worship Him because despite the evil that humanity is constantly ridden with, He still loved us enough to give us salvation, redemption, forgiveness. He gave us these gifts by giving His Son to die as a sacrifice for all.

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“Why would you worship a God who ___?”

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Because, in all ways, there is no other god like You.

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Psalm 86:8-10

“Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works. All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.”

Isaiah 44:6-8

“Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.”