Who is God?

When I hear people say things like – how could God let that happen? If he was a loving God, how can bad things happen? Well, XYZ happened to me and if he really cared about me, he wouldn’t have let it happen. (enter your question/statement here) Etc.

What this tells me is that the person asking the question has no idea who God really is. Instead of taking the time (doing research) by reading and studying His Word to understand who he is and find answers to these questions, they throw a tantrum or say bad things and insult Him or ignore him much like a child would do. (And how almost fitting considering we are “children” of God.)

Robby (my pastor) has said that discovery is the best way of learning. And how true it is!! When you discover the answer yourself, instead of having someone feed it to you, it means much more, you understand it better and will remember it.

Just as there are laws in the natural, there are laws in the supernatural. And just like anything else, if you want to understand them, you have to research, study and learn them. Think about it. Your physics teacher in high school was not going to give you the answers to the test. And even if he did, you still would not know why or how he came up with that answer. It is the same thing in having a RELATIONSHIP with God. He is always perusing you, yet to understand who he is, his promises and character, you must peruse him as well. You must be willing to be still and quite and to be open to what he has to say.

It leaves me to ask – Do you really want answers to these questions? Or is it just easier to blame someone else than take responsibility for yourself and your actions? (Or inaction as the case maybe.)
I challenge those of you who feel this way, to seek the answers by studying God’s Word. Don’t take someone else’s word for it, take the time to really be open and read and see what God says.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways. [This is] the LORD’s declaration. For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

For just as rain and snow fall from heaven, and do not return there without saturating the earth, and making it germinate and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

so My word that comes from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and will prosper in what I send it [to do].” Isaiah 55:8-11