“Typically I really feel like God likes to see us squirm in several sorts of struggling. That He likes to only make bets with the satan to only see if we’re trustworthy, like He did with Job. All completely pointless.”
Are you pondering to your self, I really feel like God likes to see us undergo?
If that’s the case, you’re not alone. Right now’s query comes from a very good good friend of mine. Let’s all spend a while to align our ideas and hearts again as much as God. As a result of issues like this, irrespective of how innocently thought, can REALLY derail us for YEARS if we’re not cautious.
I Really feel Like God Likes to See Us Undergo
Deep down you realize it’s not true. God doesn’t get pleasure from seeing us undergo. In truth, it’s blasphemy to say He does! Did you notice that?
It’s blasphemy
Any time we name God dangerous or have defiant irreverence for Him, it’s blasphemy and really critical.
In Revelation 13:6, it says, “It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies in opposition to God, blaspheming his identify and his dwelling, that’s, those that dwell in heaven.”
“It” is referring to the anti-Christ right here. So Devil blasphemies in opposition to God. We undoubtedly don’t need to be discovered doing ANYTHING that Devil does, proper?!
Matthew 12:22-32 is one other excellent spot to look. In verse 31, it says, “Subsequently I inform you, each sin and blasphemy will probably be forgiven folks, however the blasphemy in opposition to the Spirit is not going to be forgiven.”
It’s saying if we blasphemy in opposition to different folks, it may be forgiven, but when we blasphemy in opposition to the Spirit (God), it is not going to be forgiven.
After I first got here throughout this just a few years again, I used to be petrified. I spotted that I had spoken sick of God earlier than and it’s one thing so horrible that we should not ever do.
In the event you’ve ever stated something dangerous about God, it’s a good suggestion to cease now from studying this and take time to repent. Inform Him that you simply didn’t know what you have been doing. You didn’t understand it was blasphemy and also you gained’t do it once more. Fall on His mercy and beauty and ask Him to forgive you.
He’ll forgive you when you repent. 
Why?
As a result of punishment just isn’t for people who find themselves combating their sin or who might have dedicated a sin they didn’t notice was sin. Punishment is for these which might be willfully disobedient.
The Hebrew phrase for it’s Marah. If a toddler, in Bible occasions was Marah, the folks of the town have been to stone and kill that baby. It was that critical. That actually makes you rethink the Prodigal Son story (Luke 15:11-32), doesn’t it? 
Some recommend that’s why the daddy ran out to satisfy him when he returned, in order that the city didn’t kill his son as a result of he was often called Marah. The daddy cherished his son, on the lookout for his son, as Jesus loves us and watches for us to come back to Him.
Blasphemy just isn’t somebody who’s rebelling for a brief time period or has a second of riot. It’s an individual who refuses to repent, an individual who is not going to STOP rebelling, somebody with deliberate rejection for God and His precepts.
The Pharisees (who Jesus was confronting in Matthew 12) have been so set of their methods, they might not change or repent and have been calling good (God) dangerous (Devil).
Because of this I say, cease now and go and repent. In order that you don’t end up turning into Marah. In order that it doesn’t take root of your life and also you proceed rebelling.
So how will we be sincere with our ideas and emotions then, with out blaspheming His treasured identify?
Speak to God alone about how you are feeling (or ONE trusted good friend, no more than that or it will be gossip. Suppose: Devil blasphemed and gossipped to all of the angels and took 1/3 of the angels with him when he fell).
In the event you really feel a sure manner, it’s okay to precise it to God. He is aware of how we really feel, He knit us collectively in our mom’s womb (Psalm 139:13-14), so making an attempt to cover how we really feel is a bit of pointless, however we will’t STAY there.
It’s like a spider. Once you first see a spider and he lands in your leg, you could let loose a scream. You’re afraid for a second. You run round making an attempt to get him off you or swat at him to kill him. You’re spooked in that second. However you’re not FOREVER spooked.
You don’t go round the remainder of your life, raving like a loopy individual saying there’s a spider in your leg when there’s not.
It’s okay to speak to God and inform Him how you are feeling, simply so that you perceive you may’t STAY there.
God is correct and holy and simply. He’s good. Even in occasions we don’t perceive HOW He’s proper, that doesn’t negate the truth that He IS proper. We should in the end come to phrases in accepting that we gained’t be capable to perceive the whole lot this facet of Heaven (Isaiah 55:8-9) and that’s okay.
Forgive God
That will sound a bit of backwards, however when you’re mad at God it’s by no means proper and we should forgive Him so that it not trigger bitterness to take root in our hearts. If bitterness takes maintain of us, we start to assume God is dangerous and might go in a really dangerous path. We have to cease the thought instantly, inform ourselves we might not perceive it however we consider the Bible and God is nice.
Utilizing Forgive important oil is one thing that’s nice to make use of when you’ll want to forgive somebody, whether or not or not it’s an individual or God. All you need to do is odor the oil and put one drop in your wrist and rub it in. If the important oil is medical grade (doTerra is), it would have an effect on your feelings and make you are feeling higher inside seconds.
Inform Him that you realize you’re flawed and also you’re sorry. Ask Him to vary your coronary heart and present you knowledge in an effort to see it from His perspective and perceive. He might present it to you, or He might not, however both manner, we now have to belief Him that He is aware of greatest and at all times does what’s greatest for us (Jeremiah 29:11).
God loves us; He died for us. God didn’t go to Devil, however Devil got here to Him (Job 1:6-8). He doesn’t NEED to check us to see if we’re trustworthy. He already is aware of the result. The check is for US to know our OWN hearts! So that we turn into conscious of it, repent, and alter.
Keep in mind the flood?
God cares a lot about us that He promised by no means to flood the earth once more. Take into consideration that from His angle.
The Lord was damage and upset that nobody cared about Him. Nobody cherished him, solely Noah. And also you say to your self, Noah AND his complete household was saved, 8 complete.
However it doesn’t say that the opposite 7 folks cherished God like Noah did or have been righteous. 
It says that NOAH did (Genesis 6:9). We might assume that Noah was the ONLY individual and the explanation that God saved his household was due to Noah. God didn’t need to damage Noah, He needed folks to proceed to pro-create (Genesis 9:7), and many others. However we have no idea if Noah’s household was really trustworthy and cherished the Lord. It’s my opinion they didn’t. In any other case, it will have stated, “Noah and his household have been righteous.” It doesn’t.
Both manner, what we CAN be certain of is that God was damage and upset that nobody cared about Him and so He simply needed to begin over and eliminate the whole lot.
Can you place your self in God’s sneakers for a second?
You’ve been trustworthy together with your youngsters for 18 years of their lives and all the sudden, they’re 18 now they usually curse your identify and deal with you very badly. They damage you a lot that you simply simply need to get away from them. You don’t need to be round them. You need them to go away. “How might they deal with me like this”, you assume to your self, “In any case I’ve carried out for them their complete life?!”
Or perhaps you may have an enemy who makes your life depressing day and evening. He’s always ruining your complete life, the whole lot you do, always sabotaging you and God’s work, always oppressing you and you’re in tears each single day about it, asking, begging for God to avoid wasting you. You simply need to get away from that one who torments you evening and day. You simply need it to finish, you don’t care the result (no matter God’s will is okay with you), you simply need all of it to be over NOW.
We will perceive the deep ache and damage God should have been feeling. He created a era to like Him and nobody cared about Him. It should have grieved His coronary heart and so, He was going to get away from people, be carried out with them. And He destroyed all however these 8. However when He was happy with Noah by Noah’s burnt providing, God promised by no means to do it once more (Genesis 8:20-22).
Regardless that, we ache God, despite the fact that we, as a nation, as a society, overlook God, deal with Him badly, blaspheme Him, by no means bear in mind Him or give Him the consideration and respect He so rightly deserves, He doesn’t simply wipe us all out. Why? Due to Noah’s providing. As a result of Noah happy Him.
God doesn’t throw us away.
We deserve dying (Romans 6:23). All of us do; we’re, even at our greatest, most righteous state, filthy rags earlier than Him (Isaiah 64:6). But He doesn’t kill us. He doesn’t wipe us all out and flood the earth. Regardless that we deserve it.
So how can we be mad at God? Once we deserve dying and even simply by merely LIVING is proving His eternal kindness, grace, and mercy towards us.
So if we’re struggling, we will rely all of it pleasure like James 1:2-4 tells us. That’s not the simplest factor on the planet to do, and I get that, however it’s the RIGHT factor to do.
God loves us. He works day and evening for us, to refine us and mould us as a result of He desires to make use of us, as a result of He desires to offer us extra heaven rewards, and for a lot of different causes…
Why is God letting us undergo? Why is He refining us?
There are numerous the reason why God permits us to undergo. He’s refining us (Isaiah 48:10). He’s eradicating impurity from our lives to make us extra like Him.
Undergo the refining course of. The extra we struggle it, the extra He’ll refine us, which often means MORE trials and struggling.
Ask Him what He’s making an attempt to show you so you may hurry up and study it and get by this struggling fast!
Extra causes He could also be refining you…
- To offer you a special perspective
- To show to the watching world that you’re a real believer (1 Peter 1:6-7)
- That can assist you turn into extra loving and gracious to others who’re struggling
- That can assist you join with others higher (struggling connects others going by the identical factor with a standard sympathy)
- To tenderize your coronary heart
- To humble you
- To make your bond with God stronger
- To be nearer to you (Matthew 5:4)
- To check you (Deuteronomy 8:2)
- To chasten you (Hebrews 12:5-13)
- To attach us with the individuals who went earlier than us (Paul suffered loads, for instance: 2 Corinthians 11:24-29. In heaven you’ll meet Paul, let your thoughts wrap round that!)
- To get you to belief Him fully
- To chop down your self-sufficiency (solely HE can get you thru the trial)
- In order that we respect extra when the whole lot goes okay
- So we will observe self-denial for Him (1 Corinthians 9:27)
WHO is refining us? It’s not Devil or a demon. It comes from a loving Father, who loves us. He’s good and needs none to perish (2 Peter 3:9). He by no means simply leaves us there in our afflictions both however is close to to us (Matthew 5:4; Deuteronomy 31:8).
He by no means places extra on us than we will deal with (1 Corinthians 10:13). He by no means does something pointless. He solely provides the lightest quantity of affliction potential until we get it proper. It’s US who trigger Him to dose out extra affliction as a result of we aren’t submitting to Him or as a result of we aren’t taking the time to strive to determine what He’s making an attempt to show us.
Pay attention, EVERYONE is coping with some type of trial of their lives, be form to others. Be loving. Be tender-hearted towards everybody round you as Christ is to you.