Genesis 18:25

Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Abraham possibly may have had. vestige of doubt whether God would do right in this matter. The ancients imputed to their gods the most abominable crimes; he had been reared among idolaters, and was still surrounded by them; he had had little of our opportunities for knowing the pure, holy and righteous attributes of the Almighty, and he might have thought that in this matter Jehovah would, to some extent, exhibit the spirit attributed to the pagan gods. We must remember that Abraham had no Bible; there had been no revelation of Christ; the Almighty had revealed himself, but it was an impossible thing that Abraham should learn to know him, from. few revelations and the traditions that came down to him, as we know God since Christ revealed him. Abraham had not made up his mind, by any means, that Jehovah would do wrong by the sacrifice of the righteous, but the fear had come into his mind that this might be the case.

There are those who insist that the distinctions of right and wrong are arbitrary, and that whatever the Divine Being decides must be the right. While we know that the will of God is always right, it is because he is supremely good. If the Omnipotent were malignant, instead of benevolent, the decisions of his will would be evil and wrong, instead of righteous. Almighty power does not insure righteous rule; we might conceive of the devil having the supreme rule of the universe; but almighty power, controlled by supreme goodness and wisdom, insures that the divine fiats will infallibly be righteous. We may not be able to fully understand the divine judgments, but we can always repose in the divine goodness, and be assured that all will be for the best.