Abraham negotiates with God over the fate of Sodom - will you really destroy the righteous with the wicked? And he frames it as a question about God's character. The judge of all the earth must do what is just. It's almost presumptuous, this argument.
But God doesn't shut him down. God engages with his reasoning. There's something beautiful about a God who can be questioned, who stands up to scrutiny, whose justice can be assumed to be... just.
In my faith crisis, I needed this Abraham. The faith that trusts God while also demanding that His actions align with justice. Not blind obedience, but questioning rooted in the conviction that God is good. When I ask God hard questions now, I'm channeling Abraham. And somehow God can handle my doubt better than He could handle my fake certainty.
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