1 Timothy 5:5 – The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.
We should be like the widow, knowing we are destitute and that our trust is placed in God.
Too often it is easy to wait till we cannot think of any other thing to do before we seek God for answers. We wait until we are desperate. The truth is that God should always be whom we first turn to. We should be praying night and day, when our conscious mind is preoccupied then our subconscious mind and our hearts should remain focused on Him. God should be our greatest hope and the first One we seek for truth and answers to life. He answers every prayer with the perfect answer. If He says “no” then we should know Him well enough that we want His answers and we toss aside our answers to embrace His perfect plan (Jeremiah 29:11). Dear Family and Friends, in these modern days people are quick to tell us that is okay to be angry at God. No, it is not! If we are angry with Him, then yes we should be honest about that. However it happens because our understanding and faith is immature, or weak. Or perhaps because we are being petulant and willful children. That is not a good place to be. Let’s not excuse weakness and sin. When we don’t understand, we should call out Him in trust and in faith, not in anger. When we speak angrily to God we are too often in the same breath accusing Him. We are saying “God, you could have stopped this evil thing from happening!” This is not what someone who claims to know Him should do (Job 40:8). If we know that He is good (1 Chronicles 16:34, Psalm 25:8) and that He loves us (Jeremiah 31:3, 1 John 3:1), if we really know that about Him, then what we should call out to God is “Not my will but Yours (Luke 22:42). I trust Your plan and decision far more than mine (Proverbs 3:5-6). Lord, please strengthen me and please give me the faith and wisdom to not doubt.” (Mark 9:24, James 1:6, Matthew 14:31) The Word says that whatever is not of faith in sin (Romans 14:23). Doubting God at any time, even in the hardest of times, is a lack of faith in Him, in who He is, In His omniscience, in His abilities and of His goodness and love. Any way we slice it, it is sin. It is not complete faith. It is often a demand to understand what we cannot. Family, yes, it’s being human. Or, as the Word describes, it is living in the flesh, and we know that living in the flesh is contrary to living in the Spirit (Romans 8:5, 9). In the end, praise God who forgives all of our sins. But isn’t our goal not to sin . Family, live being led by the Spirit and we will not sin (Galatians 5:16-17), and that includes yelling foolish things to God. Being angry with God is not God’s plan. If it is not His plan than it is the plan of ….well, you know. Additionally, are we the final authority of what is evil? Do we know more fully than God?
We are called to know and live by “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13). Being angry with God is not expressing full faith in Him.
Family I have no desire to placate myself with something false. I would rather know the Truth and become stronger. It is the same thing I say to all of you. I could ride the bandwagon and say it is okay to be angry at God because certain biblical people got angry with God. Yet because they got angry with God does not make it okay. Plenty of heroes and beloved of God sinned in this way, including many of the most prominent. Their sin is revealed to show their humanity and their imperfection. It is not an example to follow but an error to eschew. It would be easy for me to follow the common error. However, I will not (1 Corinthians 9:16). My first loyalty and love is to God. If I were to tell you a lie to placate you then in the same breath I would be betraying God. Also, then, I would not be loving you, but being uncaring and perhaps, even hateful. I would rather someone despise my words for telling the truth, then to tell them a lie so they will accept my words. The Lord speaks truth to me about me, sometimes it hurts, but when I accept the truth He makes me stronger. I pray that we would never doubt, lack faith in God, but that we would love, trust and never accuse God. That is a much better road. Let us rejoice in, and never doubt, that God is good all the time and He loves us! Praise God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.