.Mad with your Father ? You’re not alone. Even prophets in the Bible were mad at Him!When believers admit to themselves that they are angry at God,the condition is not nearly as dangerous or as imprudent as living in denial.
When angry at God, the rage feels validated . God can do anything so He should . . . If God is cold , selfish or abuses His power, He deserves our contempt. He’s no better than we are. Let’s think and ask ourselves: What if we’re still watching the beginning of the movie and have yet to watch all the the unmasking of villains and secret plots? Have we been duped into jumping to conclusions before the end ?
Is it over-simplistic to say God can do anything? it remains illogical – absurd, in fact – to suppose that infinite power could create a circle with straight sides, for example. The moment omnipotence forces straight sides on to a circle, it is no longer a circle. Likewise, not even could someone be moral and honest while at the same time cheating, lying and stealing.
If there is a God of love, consider this: you cannot fervently love someone without aching for that person to love you – especially if you know that person desperately needs you in his/her life. To deeply love someone means you could have everything else in the universe, and yet without that person’s love you would still be heartbroken.
So do you want an omnipotent God to abuse his power or act in love?
To be mad at God is as mad as angrily smashing your fist into a wall. It hurts you deeply.
Being mad at God is as mad as a child so furious at his parents for not letting him drink poison. having no conception of the dangers he is exposing himself to. We understand our God ( our real Father ) no more than a little child can understand its parent’s decisions.
To be mad at God is as mad as a drowning man fighting off his rescuer.
Arrogantly assuming we know the end of the story when we’re still on the first page, we b jump to conclusions when we only know a fraction of the facts and get things so wrong that we end up blaming the one person who is utterly innocent, treating as a sadistic torturer the only person who cares enough to tend our wounds, despising the person who has given us both his kidneys, and instigating a hate campaign against the sweetest person in the universe.
Claiming we know more than the only Person who has all the facts, and thinking ourselves more righteous than the Source of all morality might not be the smartest thing we have ever done. Anyone supposing he knows more than the one WHO knows everything, and that he is smarter than the One with infinite IQ, has set himself on a collision course with reality.
If we really think the One we can never hide from and who has the power to torment us for all eternity is cruel or heartless, why would we risk the fury of the Omnipotent One by raging against him? We want God to execute instant justice without stopping to realize that instant justice would have sent us to hell. Ironically, what infuriates us about God is the very thing we should be most grateful for. No, we should not be grateful for all the evil in this world – it grieves, hurts and infuriates God even more than it does us – but God’s decision to give time to repent rather than instantly executing justice is the very thing that has given us time to come to our senses before it is too late.
When angry at God, the rage feels validated . God can do anything so He should . . . If God is cold , selfish or abuses His power, He deserves our contempt. He’s no better than we are. Let’s think and ask ourselves: What if we’re still watching the beginning of the movie and have yet to watch all the the unmasking of villains and secret plots? Have we been duped into jumping to conclusions before the end ?
Is it over-simplistic to say God can do anything? it remains illogical – absurd, in fact – to suppose that infinite power could create a circle with straight sides, for example. The moment omnipotence forces straight sides on to a circle, it is no longer a circle. Likewise, not even could someone be moral and honest while at the same time cheating, lying and stealing.
If there is a God of love, consider this: you cannot fervently love someone without aching for that person to love you – especially if you know that person desperately needs you in his/her life. To deeply love someone means you could have everything else in the universe, and yet without that person’s love you would still be heartbroken.
So do you want an omnipotent God to abuse his power or act in love?
To be mad at God is as mad as angrily smashing your fist into a wall. It hurts you deeply.
Being mad at God is as mad as a child so furious at his parents for not letting him drink poison. having no conception of the dangers he is exposing himself to. We understand our God ( our real Father ) no more than a little child can understand its parent’s decisions.
To be mad at God is as mad as a drowning man fighting off his rescuer.
Arrogantly assuming we know the end of the story when we’re still on the first page, we b jump to conclusions when we only know a fraction of the facts and get things so wrong that we end up blaming the one person who is utterly innocent, treating as a sadistic torturer the only person who cares enough to tend our wounds, despising the person who has given us both his kidneys, and instigating a hate campaign against the sweetest person in the universe.
Claiming we know more than the only Person who has all the facts, and thinking ourselves more righteous than the Source of all morality might not be the smartest thing we have ever done. Anyone supposing he knows more than the one WHO knows everything, and that he is smarter than the One with infinite IQ, has set himself on a collision course with reality.
If we really think the One we can never hide from and who has the power to torment us for all eternity is cruel or heartless, why would we risk the fury of the Omnipotent One by raging against him? We want God to execute instant justice without stopping to realize that instant justice would have sent us to hell. Ironically, what infuriates us about God is the very thing we should be most grateful for. No, we should not be grateful for all the evil in this world – it grieves, hurts and infuriates God even more than it does us – but God’s decision to give time to repent rather than instantly executing justice is the very thing that has given us time to come to our senses before it is too late.
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