Today, many people are placing the blame for bad things in their life on God. Many people are blaming God when they really do not understand that God cannot do evil things, God is the source of every good thing that occurs in our lives. Perhaps the reason some people blame God for their problems is that they do not believe in God in the first place and any opportunity to degrade God in the eyes of others is considered by them a way to get even.
As we stated, God is the source of all good things that we receive in life –
James 1:17, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” NKJV.
James 3:17, “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy” NKJV.
1 Peter 2:20-22, “20 For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: 22 “Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth” NKJV.
On the other hand, the Bible tells us that the cause of all misery, sickness, death, and every evil thing that happens to man is from the Devil and his agents, and a consequence of sin –
Matthew 13:38-39, “38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels”
John 8:44, “44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it” NKJV.
Acts 10:38, “38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him” NKJV.
Acts 13:10, “10 and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord” NKJV?
Ephesians 6:11, 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil“
Hebrews 2:14, “14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, NKJV
Even though the Devil (i.e., Satan, the evil one, etc.) is the source of all wickedness the Christian can resist him and he will flee (i.e., cannot overcome the Christian) – cf.,
James 4:7, “7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you” NKJV. … Glc