Post by George on Jan 5, 2006 3:18:52 GMT -5
Angry or Disappointed with God
Brothers and sisters, I recently had a conversation with a man who told me he sometimes gets angry with God and somtimes is disappointed in and with God. In the first place I do not see how anyone who calls himself or herself Christian could possibly ever be angry or disappointed with God. That being said let us examine some of the reasons I do not believe that should ever take place in the life of a Christian.
1.) Angry or disappointed with God when He sent Jesus Christ to die for us that we might not only escape His righteous wrath and condemnation but also be able to attain eternal life through His Son?
(John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
2.) Angry or disappointed with God when He sent the Holy Spirit to free us from our own sinful natures and join us to Christ?
(Ephesians 1:13) In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,
(Ephesians 4:30) And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
(John 14:26) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
3.) Angry or disappointed with God when He has made us His very own daughters and sons, with all the rights and privileges that come with that relationship?
(1 John 3:1) Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
(Romans 8:16) The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: (Romans 8:17) And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
4.) Angry or disappointed with God when He has drawn us into a great cosmic drama of redemption, in which even the heavens and earth have a part?
(Romans 3:24) Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
(1 Corinthians 1:30) But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
The heavens and the earth play the part of the constant reminder of God’s hand in their creation. The evidence of God is all around us and serves as reminder of His promise to us. The heavens serve as further reminder of our heavenly home when we go to be with The Lord.
5.) Angry or disappointed with God when He has provided the Holy Spirit to intercede for us, conforming our ignorant and incomplete prayers to the good, pleasing and acceptable will of God?
(Romans 8:26) Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. (Romans 8:27) And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
6.) Angry or disappointed with God when He has set in motion an invincible chain of saving actions, beginning with his affectionate choice of us in eternity past, proceeding through his predestination of us to be saved from sin and conformed to the image of His own blessed Son, his effectual calling of us to faith in Jesus as the Saviour, and justification, and ending with glorification in which all the blessed purposes of God toward us are fulfilled?
(Genesis 1:27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:29) And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. (Genesis 1:30) And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. (Genesis 1:31) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
(Romans 8:29) For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Romans 8:30) Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
(Matthew 22:14) For many are called, but few are chosen.
(Ephesians 2:8) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
7.) Angry or disappointed with God when He has fixed such a lasting love upon us that nothing in all creation can separate is from it?
(Romans 8:35) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Romans 8:36) As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (Romans 8:37) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. (Romans 8:38) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, (Romans 8:39) Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Angry? Disappointed? Brothers and sisters, what were we thinking of? Perhaps the problem is that we were not thinking. Or maybe we were thinking only of ourselves? Is it that we are angry or disappointed with God because He has not done exactly what we wanted him to do exactly when we wanted Him to do it? Do we think we know better than God? Do you recall the story of Job? After all of his trying to second-guess God what were God’s first words to Job? Basically it was, “Who do you think you are? What did we have to do with anything?
Do we think we know better than God when He already has a plan in effect for us that is much better than any we could devise on our own and He is busy working out that plan this very minute? Not only that, but He will continue to work it out until the day we leave this earth.
(Philippians 1:6) Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: