I Blame God
He must not be real!
In General:
Bad things happen in life. Does being a Christian mean nothing bad will ever happen to you or your family in your life time? No, not at all! The problem with most of the bad things that happen to us we often want to blame God. Yet, 90% of the bad things that will happen in your lifetime are either caused by Satan, who hates you and wants to destroy you, by nature and chance, or by your own decisions or actions. (For example, you go and get drunk, drive your car a 100 mph and have a wreck. Yelp, that’s God fault alright!)
Tragedy in Your Life:
Has something happened in your life that you blame God for? Did someone die, get sick, or some other terrible thing happen in your family that makes you hate God and want to walk away from your faith?
Maybe you were told to fast and pray and that God would make everything good again. But, at the end, it didn’t. Praying for something from God does not mean you will get it. Sometimes we have to accept things that happen and acknowledge God’s will over our own. Also, fasting is not to be done with an expectation of getting something in return. Fasting is for the purpose of focusing in on God. Then, who knows what might have happened had you got your answer anyway.
Also remember, we all are going to die. Whether we die today or years from now we will die. It’s much harder to accept when children are involved. Please read the true story below.
Think your situation is bad, check out this!
My grandma Hattie had eight of her children die at the age of two or less. EIGHT!!!! To me, the most tragic event that we have to deal with in life is children who are sick or dying. Talk about someone who seemed to have a right to curse God. Talk about someone who had the right to give up on God, children, and life. – Wow! – However, she never cursed God. Instead, she prayed and believed in His love for her and His divine will for her life. One of her children named Ruby Lee, put her toys up one night, came and sat on my grandma’s lap and told her that she won’t need her toys anymore that Jesus was coming to take her to Heaven to see her brother (Clifford, who have previously died). Ruby Lee died that night. Grandma would go on to have six children who lived. They would make up my mom and my aunts and uncles on my grandma’s side of the family.
Then a voice was heard in
my grandma’s living room. The voice said “Hattie, you have suffered enough.
From this day forward, you will be blessed!” My mom and aunt still tell the
story of that night and hearing the voice. From that time on, God’s miracles
and blessings followed her. My mom and my aunt both got sick and Hattie, was
told they would die. They prayed that evening. The next morning the doctors
told her they had somehow completely recovered.
Other miracles would follow. One of the most awesome miracles was when her water supplied dried up during a Texas drought. Grandma took all of her children to the pond and prayed. The next day the pond was full. Let me say that again, the next day the pond was full. No rain, no explanation just a miracle of answered prayer from our Awesome Heavenly Father.
All of her six surviving children have lived long, happy and prosperous lives. Grandma lived until she was 83. Her husband lived until he was almost 90.
Correction from God:
Most of the time, it is so easy to just blame God that something went wrong or that we did not get the answer we were hoping for. This is because as Christians we are taught things that are just not true. As Jesus walked on earth, not everyone who was sick who asked for healing received it. He would walk through crowds and many would beg for healing but never got it.
If something happens to you and you have been lax in your faith and service to God, don’t be too surprised. God may be chastening you trying to get your attention and get your life back on course. Just like a parent disciplines their children to correct their behavior, your Heavenly Father will on occasion correct you to your life back on the path that it should be on. This happened to me last year! It worked and now I am focused on the things that I should be focused on.
Your Real Enemy:
First of all, Satan and his fallen angels and demons, hate you because you are redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb. They hate God and they hate you. PERIOD! Satan is never your friend and he never has any good thing to give you. They love to cause problems in your life because they love for you to blame God. There is nothing they want more than for you to curse God for something that has happened to you or your family. They will take every opportunity you give them to help you make bad decisions.
One of the most famous books in the Bible on this topic is Job. The importance of the story of Job is that it clearly shows how Satan and his army are always trying to do bad things to followers of God. It also shows how those who love God are often shielded and protected from harm (please see Bible text below story). Job loses everything, yet refuses to curse God.