When an evil act takes place, like the assassination attempt on President Trump, we can miss seeing the miracle of God’s rescue because we allowed our negative predisposition to limit our understanding of what happened. What muddles our understanding are the derangements we have about the person being rescued. In a state of derangement, we will miss seeing something greater that took place in the evil attack – divine intervention. 

Elihu, one of Job’s friends, was waxing passionately and confidently about Job and why he was suffering. Elihu made a statement that was a breathless pause in his attempt to correct Job’s thinking, “For I have not finished defending God!” (Job 36:2). Elihu said many things that are true about life and the Lord. Still, he missed the most important element in his correction. He missed the heart of God. No matter how much Elihu thought he knew of God, he allowed his judgment of Job and what he thought he understood about Job’s experience to blind him from seeing something greater.

People are looking for answers at this challenging time in our history. Many times, in our attempt to defend God against those with whom we disagree, those defensive explanations are nothing more than a revelation of our derangements. They reveal the weakness of our limited understanding of God because we have allowed our deranged thinking to keep us from seeing the miracles of God that were present in the expression of an evil act.