DON'T BLAME GOD

 Our loving, kind, sympathetic, merciful, understanding God has been misrepresented over and over.

In our minds, we see God as being all-powerful --which He IS but we attribute His all-knowing and all-powerful attributes to mean that He is in control of everything on this planet all the time. IS THAT TRUE?

Is God in control?

We love to say that, don't we? "Don't worry, God's in control." And, "All's well with the planet because God's in His Heaven and all's right with the world."

NO IT ISN'T.

All's NOT right with the world. In fact, a LOT of stuff is happening that is NOT of God, NOT God's will and, in fact, is destructive, unfair, unloving and UNGODLY. Do I need to mention it? It's almost unmentionable and I'm not talking about undergarments. I'm talking about child-molestation, child torture, kidnappings, murders, robbery, mutilation, and on and on and on and we don't really want to talk about it, do we?

MANY THINGS GO WRONG AND MANY THINGS ARE NOT GOOD, NOT OF GOD AND NOT FAIR. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY ARE OF GOD, PLANNED BY GOD OR INNITIATED BY GOD. 

THINGS LIKE CANCER. COME ON! YOU DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THAT GOD GIVES PEOPLE CANCER, DO YOU?

 I do NOT want to offend anyone who may have cancer but I want you to know (whoever you are, believer or non-believer, Christian, or any other religious believer) GOD DID NOT GIVE YOU CANCER.  That is a fact. How do I know that? Because God doesn't own cancer and carry it around to give to people!

God heals cancer.

No, He doesn't give you the flu "to teach you a lesson". 

You know what I learned when I got a devastating head-ache that lasted for TWO days? I learned that being pain-free is a blessing that I had never appreciated as much as I did after the head-ache went away. 

One might think, "Then, it was worth it." 

If you want to think that way, that's fine. We should gain something for our pain. We should get as much mileage out of our pain as possible --if you find it necessary. Just DON'T GIVE GOD THE BLAME FOR IT OR EVEN THE "CREDIT" FOR IT BECAUSE GOD DOESN'T GIVE US PAIN!

That mindset is not of God. He really doesn't want us to think like that. Yes, we can believe that "all things work together for good to them that love God" and sometimes for those that don't think they love God all that much. (How can you tell how much you love God? God knows.)

Since we're  on the subject, let's talk about war. Is WAR God's will? Does God start wars? 

People look at the Old Testament and it looks like GOD is actually sending His children into war with other nations. Do you want to talk about that? Mind you, this is Old Testament we're talking about. We should dig a lot deeper to understand the BACKGROUND STORY of WHO these nations were that Moses and Joshua were going up against. 

Another thing to consider is that these nations that Israel came into on their way to the Promised Land were IDOL-WORSHIPPERS, BABY-TORTURERS/KILLERS. THEY WERE PARTAKING OF BESTIALITY AND ALL KINDS OF PERVERSIONS --- MUCH LIKE TODAY.

Israel didn't want to go to war with Jericho. They were afraid of the giants. But, God wanted to rid the world of giants because they were not normal human beings. They were WAR MACHINES. And they are on the earth TODAY. 

Okay, so the thing is that we really can't use the Old Testament wars that Israel had to fight as a basis to believe that God is a God of WAR. 

And we can't refer to what happened in Egypt with the plagues and collapse of Egypt during the deliverance of the Israeli slaves to judge God's character as being vindictive and cruel. He gave the Egyptians plenty of warning ahead of every plague that came upon them.

Look at His treatment of the Jews in Goshen. They did not suffer the plagues because of the Blood of the Lamb. Just like TODAY. The Blood of the Lamb protects us now, too.

You may not see the Blood with your physical eyes but SATAN KNOWS it HAS DEFEATED HIM. He was defeated by the BLOOD. He knows that. He also knows that he's going to be judged. He doesn't know WHEN but he knows his time is coming and he's trying to get US to co-operate with him to BUY MORE TIME. 

Good luck with that, Lucifer/Satan/Beasty/Devil. Well, luck isn't going to help him. But OUR KNOWLEDGE of GOD/Jesus Christ/ Yeshua Hamashiak/Yaweh/Jehovah will help US --all of us who believe on the name of the Only Begotten Son of God. WE HAVE OVERCOME HIM. HE IS DEFEATED.

But, apparently, he doesn't want to accept the truth. He's very, very busy going around the planet flapping his gums and babbling in people's ears, trying to convince them that it's all GOD'S FAULT. 

DON'T LET HIM CONVINCE YOU OF THAT. 

DON'T ALLOW HIM TIME TO GET ONE WORD INTO YOUR MIND OR HEART. SHUT HIM DOWN.

Please, by all that is righteous; please don't blame God for anything bad that happens. Can we learn this one lesson? It has taken me years and years to break the habit of blaming God for things or thinking that "God did this for a reason" when something terrible happens, instead of realizing WAIT A MINUTE...

If GOD truly GAVE His only Son to suffer an excruciating DEATH to SAVE US FROM SATAN and HELL, doesn't that indicate that GOD IS A GOOD GOD WHO LOVES US?