Where did we get the idea that God doesn't hurt? or do we think He doesn't hurt like we do? ....but aren't we made in His image? Then if we hurt it must mean that He hurts too, right?
We go through a lot of things in life that brings pain to us, but it did not originate with us! From the beginning "people" have brought pain to our Heavenly Father and yet He continues in love and forgiveness!
I am walking through a process of grieving so this is all fresh in my mind and I have felt a closeness to my Father in a new way. He has drawn close to me to comfort me, to wrap loving arms around me and lift me when I need lifting.
He has shown me that I do not grieve alone, that He walks through it all with me and He feels the pain that I go through. He is not cold and distant, He is the loving presence that says to "Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep"(Romans 12:15).
Many times we hear of people rejecting God or being angry with Him after a loved one has suffered or died. They say how can a "Loving God" let this happen? They are not facing the fact that we are born into sin because we are no longer living in the Garden of Eden, our ancestors got us kicked out of the perfect environment and now we are living behind enemy lines in the battle zone where our enemy is doing his best to "steal, kill and destroy".
Why do we blame God for the facts that we are born into? It's like blaming gravity that we are not able to flap our arms and fly! It is not God's choosing that Adam and Eve sinned, that hurt Him! It is not God's fault that mankind was kicked out of Eden, that was from a choice made by Adam! It hurt God also, He longed to walk in the Garden and fellowship with His creation! We blame God for sickness, that was not in Eden and therefore not His choice, that was and is the enemy! It hurts God when we walk through illness! We blame God when people are evil or do evil things to each other. That is not His choice! God says "love one another"! It hurts God to see His creation abusing one another, He never-ever intended for that to happen, but He did give people free choice! Why do we not face the fact that we have free choice and an enemy? We make bad, selfish, rebellious choices and allow our enemy into our live. The enemy will do whatever he can to destroy God's creation!
Today God is showing me that He is walking through this pain with me and saving all of the tears that I am shedding(Psalm 56:8). He is not distant, He is close to me, hurting for me. He is not hurting because my mother has left Earth, because now she is home with Him, but He is hurting because I am hurting from the separation. If we could grab hold of the truth that God is not distant and cold, but loving and closer than we can imagine we would have a much different relationship with Him and comfort in our hurting times! Our Heavenly Father is less than a cellophane thickness away from us. Try pressing against the cellophane that holds you back from Him and you will grow closer still.
He loves us, He does not want us to hurt, but it is part of life. Unfortunately pain has been part of mankind's life since God's creation rebelled against Him by listening to the enemy and choosing to bite the fruit and be cast out of Eden. But put the blame where it belongs, on "man" and our enemy. Yes man was tempted by the enemy, but Adam made the choice.
Please recognize that God does love greatly, does hurt deeply and tries to draw us close to Him when we hurt, if we will only let Him instead of blaming Him.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16
You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your book? Psalm 56:8
The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.” Genesis 2:16
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. Genesis 3:1
