"A man's own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the LORD."
It is funny how many people who will not acknowledge God at any other time in their lives are willing to bring Him up on charges for the problems they've created for themselves. One teenage girl, in trouble with the law and imploding morally, claimed that she was not sure whether she believed in God. That statement, however foolish I may consider it, was a fair enough explanation for her problems, for belief in God implies more than just acknowledgment of His existence, it also conveys a trust in His wisdom and a submission to His rule over one's life. She certainly did not believe in God. But, when it came to discussing her problems she was unreserved in her blame and hatred toward God for her heartache. Her inconsistency and how she could hate a non-existent being (in her own mind) was not considered, but the intensity of her anger at Him was evident. Her heart was conflicted. There was an innate, divinely-infused sense of God's reality, with a corresponding self-conceit that would not acknowledge the sin that had brought her to her present state of turmoil. Since pride kept her in her conceit she had only two options: blame God or deny God, and she would do either as it suited the circumstance.
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