Forgiving God
What happens to many people when a tragedy occurs that affects them personally? They and others may ask a sincere but misguided question like, 鈥淲hy didn鈥檛 God do something?鈥� What they are saying is, why didn鈥檛 God do something to stop what happened?
If there is a God, then why doesn鈥檛 he interfere or intervene in the world蘑菇视频 problems and especially the thing that is causing my heartache? Either God is too impotent or not wise enough to handle it. That rational manifests itself either from hurt and anger towards, or rebellion against God.
Since God is omniscient, all knowing, that means he knew.
And since he is omnipotent, all powerful, he could have done something about the situation.
Why did God let it happen? Why didn鈥檛 he do something about it?
Now we have moved into the category of questioning God蘑菇视频 integrity and goodwill because of our emotionality. Since God has the wherewithal to have prevented the situation, he should have. Now the person is questioning God蘑菇视频 judgement and wisdom.
The real target end result is that the person goes past that God should have done something in a proactive way and becomes enlisted in the mindset that since God should have and didn鈥檛, that God is culpable in the tragedy or uncaring.
Moving further into a wounded or seditious mentality, the false accusation against him becomes that God is a victimizer. Most of the time, the wounded questioners just want to have a reason for the suffering and pain. They just want to make sense of loss of a loved one or some other sorrowful event.
Here go some questions about this issue at the risk of sounding spiritually calloused and frightfully rude. What does God owe you, or anyone, for that matter? Honestly, what does God owe anyone? What makes you so special that God should intervene on your behalf, why not everyone蘑菇视频? Are you using your hurt as an excuse to rebel and walk away from God?
Since God didn鈥檛 spare himself a whole bunch of heartache and pain, why is he obligated to do it for you or anyone?
Since God showed himself faithful to us by going and dying on the cross through no fault of his own, why don鈥檛 we show faithfulness to him in return?
We must be careful to not let a root of bitterness grow up between us and God because of unanswered questions pertaining to loss, suffering and grief.
Since God is omnipotent, all powerful, and omniscient, all knowing, we must have faith that he is wise enough to exercise his power when he should or needs to, even when we don鈥檛 understand.
That is called faith. God didn鈥檛 call us to a walk of understanding; he called us to a walk of faith.
In the Bible, Habbakuk 2:4 states that 鈥淭he righteous shall live by faith.鈥� 鈥淔orgiving God鈥� is really letting go of your resentment and anger towards him because we truly don鈥檛 understand something that is hurtful to us and others that we care about.
We must say to ourselves, 鈥淚 don鈥檛 get it, I don鈥檛 understand, I don鈥檛 know why, I want answers, but I shall still say, blessed is the name of the Lord.鈥� This is trusting God.
Sometimes we become resentful of God when we have our own failings, or we become discouraged by life events and we get angry and then we spiritually lash out at God because of our inability to understand or cope. It蘑菇视频 like we鈥檙e seeing through a glass darkly.
Overcoming and moving on in life is to resign ourselves that no matter what, God is in control and we must recognize that we are not immune to suffering and pain. We must come to terms that what God will not take us out of, he will see us through.
Some excerpts in this article have come from my book, 鈥淒oes God Understand What I鈥檓 Going Through?鈥� Forgiving God isn鈥檛 because he did anything wrong, it蘑菇视频 letting go of our harmful and negative emotions and feelings toward God because we are upset with how things are going in life.
Forgive others, yourself and God. Be set free.