Mad at God

[Charly22]

Another quote from a song by Jewel:

"There are plenty of people who pray for peace...but if praying were enough it would have come to be"

[astander]

I'm a little mad at God myself. I feel as though my faith in God hasn't changed, I'm just mad that He isn't giving me any insight as to why this is happening. I am convinced that Jesus is the messiah and that God is totally sovereign, over the world and over all of us. I once heard a preacher say, "there's nothing that God doesn't cause or allow." So basically, you have to accept that God is allowing incredible injustices and evils to prevail all around the world, at every moment. Why? Why would a loving God do that? It's an eternal mystery.

There are people who suffer and pray, and the suffering is not alleviated. We will never know why. But I try to remember these things when I begin to lose my faith:

1) the story of Lazarus. Jesus could have gone to see Lazarus, but he waited 2 days. He waited so that His glory could be shown to everyone -- that no one would doubt who He was.

2) the story of the prodigal son. Sometimes, I think the SOs can be like the sons who were faithful and how unfair it is that the PAs can just betray us and we have to sit and be patient, understanding, forgiving. That's how it is for me, anyway. Not that I'm some kind of saint or anything. But the point is, sometimes life's not fair. We'll never know why.

3) There is evil in the world and all the praying won't take it away -- only when Jesus comes again will everything be made right. Until then, we wait, and must believe that God is good, and He doesn't waste pain. We are all sinful, we are compared to metals, where God puts a fire under us to make us pure. It sure is painful though.

4) The story of the widow in Luke 18 -- Jesus told this to show us to keep praying and not give up. The woman just eventually wore the judge down! so even though there are stories about how people's prayers appear to go unanswered, it doesn't have to be our story. The message from our heavenly father is to never give up praying.

[Cupcakemomma]

Cupcake's random thought on God latley:
God won't give me more than I can handle, I just sometimes wish he didn't trust me so much.:D

[NewHope10]

Cupcake's random thought on God latley:
God won't give me more than I can handle, I just sometimes wish he didn't trust me so much.:D

That's a good one! Thanks for the BIG smile!

One thing that stands out for me...since I was a teenager - was something my Mom told me. I come from a Christian upbringing. Even so...I got pregnant when I was 16 - had my first son when I was 17. Got pregnant again at 17 - and had my second son at 18. I married the father of my children - who (after we got married) was physically and mentally abusive to me.

My parents never believed in divorce - except under certain circumstances...abuse and infidelity being two of them.

My Mom sat me down one day and said the following:

"God did not create you to be treated like second best."

That has stuck with me for years. Although sometimes I need to be "knocked down" a few times...I always come back to what she said.

I'm so lucky to have a Mom like her. If I had my pick of Mom's...she'd ALWAYS be the one I'd choose!

[Cupcakemomma]

Can I pick your mom too? LOL