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I remember Job lost all that he had in life, family, friends and material possessions. His wife wanted him to curse God and die, he wouldn't, instead his heart spoke"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him." Job questioned God concerning the events of his life. God knows the way that each of us must take. He paved it out in victory through Jesus Christ.
Everyone will have trials and tribulations to bear, no one is exempt from it. God says, that His thoughts are not our thoughts, nor our ways His ways. He states that His thoughts unto us are for peace, to give us and expected end. God understands the level of adversity that we all must go through. He has given unto us His grace that will be more than sufficient to see us through any storm that will rage in our lives. Of course, we must firmly put our trust in Him and stand on
His promises in His Word in obedience.
When we open up our understanding to truly know the God of Creation, then we can truly believe that He will and has always taken good care of us, even in and through great sorrow and seemingly, endless pain. We will all question the events in our lives. I just don't think that it is a wise thing to be angry at God. Who are we to question Our Creator?
I myself would never nor could I ever be angry at God. He's spared my life over 20 times from death. I'm grateful that He remembered me in time of trouble, because He certainly didn't have to. The bible does say to be angry and sin not, so there is a limit. Remember, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, Blessed be the name of The Lord."
Check it:
Isaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? Isaiah 45:8-10 (in Context) Isaiah 45 (Whole Chapter}
Read about Job's Plight: The Book of Job [Read what God did for him]
Job 13:15
15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Job 2:9
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Isaiah 55:7-9
7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts
God said we must get to truly know HIm:
Read Jeremiah 9
23Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
His thoughts unto us:
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end
Psalm 139:16-18
16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
God's Blessings: Read Psalms 1
Psalm 1
1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night
Psalm 37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Psalm 37 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 37:31
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Ephesians 4:26
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: