Have you ever been cranky at God?
I mean, so cranky that you might even think He’s mean and unfair?
Has it gotten so bad that you might just doubt that He even exists?
Crankiness at God is usually due to circumstances that haven’t gone the way we wanted.
So, like petulant children, we throw a spiritual temper tantrum and accuse God of not loving us anymore.
Beloved, Satan wants us to view God through the lens of our circumstances.
If everything is going our way, then God loves us; if things aren’t going the way we want, then He hates us, or worse, He doesn’t exist.
It’s easy to see the immaturity in this mindset when a child is having a fit, but how about when we do it as adults with God?
“God, why didn’t You let me get that job?”
“Why didn’t You stop me from….?”
I’ve walked with a number of saints who’ve made fleshly choices that have had severe long term consequences.
Satan is always right there to accuse God for their choices.
Beloved, God is our loving Father; therefore, He disciplines us for our own good.
The real question is: “Why aren’t we owning up to our choices and accepting the consequences?”
Just like Adam and Eve, we quickly shift the blame to God.
If you’re mad at God for the results of your choices, here’s what I suggest:
- look at yourself in a mirror
- admit and accept responsibility for your choices
- accept that your sins are 100% paid for in full by the blood of the Lamb
- acknowledge your total dependence on Jesus to endure the consequences
- confess your crankiness toward God
- seek His forgiveness to restore fellowship with Him
- ask Him to do all things through you for His glory
Beloved, there is never a moment that God doesn’t love us.
He is always working in our best interests.
This means He will discipline us for our fleshly choices to teach us to walk after the Spirit instead of our flesh.
As the writer of Hebrews tells us,
“All discipline at the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
God’s discipline of us is evidence of His Father love for us; accept it and rest in His great love!
Blessings!
Robyn