Have you found yourself angry with God? What makes a person
angry with God? A lot of times we’re angry at God because we misunderstand
life. By human nature, our natural man wants answers,
but we base the answers we want to hear on what we understand
about life. The problem is, we are basing our understanding about
life on physical perceptions and not on spiritual perceptions. We
can’t understand spiritual things until we get in touch with God,
who is a spiritual Being.
Let me explain it this way. Roll back the cameras and reminisce
about your childhood. Do you remember a time when you had to
take a quiz in class but you were not prepared for it? You didn’t
study, so you depended on your classmates sitting next to you
to give you the answers. In essence, you decided to cheat. At the
appointed time for the quiz, you began twiddling your thumbs,
sweat poured down your face, and your heart started beating really
fast. You feared you were about to fail the quiz. The teacher gave
instructions with a stern face, telling you all to keep your eyes on
your own papers. She began to walk around row by row. As the time
ticked itself away, and the fear, doubt, worry, and anxiety rushed to
your thoughts, you started to get angry at the teacher. You think,
Why did she have to give me this stupid quiz anyway? Nobody cares
about this stuff. How is this going to help me out in life?
We approach God in the same way. We need answers. He has
them. He allows us to pass through different circumstances to teach
us lessons, and then He gives us a quiz. But, what have we been
doing? Instead of paying attention to the lessons our circumstances
could be teaching, we’re out playing or we’re complaining. We’re
not studying. Therefore we’re not prepared when the tests come.
Then we’re mad at God.
Today we live in a microwavable world. In our minds we realize
that nothing in life comes overnight, but in our experience, we live
wanting everything—especially answers—right now. We tend to go
with the fl ow of others’ knowledge without adequately checking
the source. Instead of stepping back and fi nding out what God
wants, we depend on another man’s answers. Do we know where
the results came from? Did this come from a third party resource,
sacrifi ced research, a balanced thought life, well-understood data
and logic, or did the answer come from God?
Races are not won automatically. The athlete who wins
outperforms his fellow athletes, who also want to win. The athlete
who wins the race is that individual who most wants to win, who
purposes to win, and who is willing to pay the price for winning.
The thing which sets a winning athlete apart from the rest is his
self-control. This discipline is not simply evident in the race, nor
is it restricted only to the realm of athletics. The winning athlete
disciplines every area of his life so that he may win the race.
If such discipline characterizes the athlete, how much more
should the Christian be willing to exercise self control to “win the
race” set before him? Please ponder this scripture of reference:
“Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how
that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through
the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the
sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the
same spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were
overthrown in the wilderness” (1 Corinthians 10:1-5).
Do we misunderstand God and life?
Excerpt from Journey To Purpose
By Lisa Fikes
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