Divine Providence and the Misplaced Blame
At times, people blame God for their failures because they do not see a wise plan working through trials. According to the authors, when a person fails to notice the Providence of God—the higher design through which every event, even painful ones, has its meaning—they tend to attribute their misfortunes to external circumstances or to other people instead of realizing that everything, including sorrow, is part of God's will.
As stated in the reflections provided in source link txt, "Did they implant this passion in you?No, it was dormant, and through them, revealed by God's gaze, it was exposed. As soon as self-reproach and explanation cleanse your heart of the splinter, ... He who blames others for his failures and refuses to see God's Providence in it will be overcome by even greater sorrows... abandoning God and rising against people, blaming them for his failures" (source: link txt). This passage emphasizes that a person's unwillingness to recognize the presence and work of a higher will leads him to project his pain and disappointment onto God and those around him, instead of humbly accepting trials and learning from them.Similar ideas are repeated in another source, which stresses that it is precisely the inability to see the wisdom of God's Providence guiding life and the insistence on one's own will that causes a person to endure even greater sorrows and suffering, as he rejects the help that humility before a higher plan can offer (source: link txt).Thus, accusations against God often arise not because He denies the world or love, but because people are unable to accept that even trials and failures may be part of a great and wise plan aimed at their spiritual correction and salvation. This reluctance to acknowledge personal responsibility and to see their own weaknesses forces them to search for external culprits, which in turn becomes the cause of their accusations against God.Supporting citation(s):"Did they implant this passion in you? No, it was dormant, and through them, revealed by God's gaze, it was exposed. ... He who blames others for his failures and refuses to see God's Providence in it will be overcome by even greater sorrows... abandoning God and rising against people, blaming them for his failures; ..." (source: link txt)"Did they implant this passion in you? No, it was dormant, and through them, revealed by God's gaze, it was exposed. ... He who blames others for his failures and refuses to see God's Providence in it will be overcome by even greater sorrows..." (source: link txt)