Are You Mad At God?

 

While in the Phenix AZ airport I found myself sitting next to a man named Jim. Striking up a conversation, we started sharing things about our lives.

After a while Jim told me that he and his wife took the Covid shots to protect themselves. Unfortunately, his wife of 45 years developed a blood clot behind her knee. The doctor was dealing with it, trying to get rid of it.

One day the clot moved and went to her lungs. When a blood clot is in your lung it causes your lung to be unable to process the oxygen you are breathing in. Even though she was breathing, she was slowly smothering.

Jim called an ambulance and was trying to help her until it arrived. He lives in the country and there is only one ambulance to service their area. What he didn’t know was, on that day there was no one to work on the ambulance. By the time they found people to work and get to his home it had taken one hour to arrive, and his wife had died in his arms.

He told me, “I am mad at God right now for taking my wife.” I suggested he needed to find a really good church to go to where they could help him through this. I was happy to hear him say he does have a very good church and goes all the time. The people are trying to help and encourage him. However, he is still mad. We talked for a while and I tried to uplift him as much as I could.

I have been thinking about him and praying for him ever since we met and he told me his story.

As Christians, we might think being mad at God is a sin, but it is not. It is a weakness. Anger is something we all must deal with at times. Although I’m sure God doesn’t want us to be mad at Him, He truly understands. Just talk to Him about it. He has very big shoulders, and He can take it.

He is not going to turn His back on us because we are angry, but we do have to work at getting past it.

The truth is, God never does things to hurt us so He can watch us suffer. Often, the bad things that happen to us are a result of a direct attack from Satan. However, it can be the consequence of our own foolishness or disobedience. No matter what we have done, God wants to forgive us if we will let Him. That doesn’t always mean the consequences will go away. Sometimes we still have to go through them.

There are times that God allows bad things because we have pushed Him away and haven’t allowed Him to be there to protect us, but He never causes bad things to happen to His children. He is the best father who has ever been.

If you had good parents when you were growing up, I am sure you will remember times when they told you what to or not to do, but you did what you wanted no matter what they said. After they watched things go badly as a result of your disobedience, they probably said something like, “Maybe next time you will listen to us.” Maybe you did, or maybe you had to learn another hard lesson. So it is with us and God.

The point is, when we go through something painful, it is never God’s fault. When we blame God and get mad at Him we are incorrectly putting the blame on Him. Sometimes our anger is the result of a broken heart, as it is with Jim. No matter what, if we give it to God and lean on Him, He will help us through it, and help us heal up from the anger.

Please don’t think I believe Jim did anything to bring this on. I don’t. He seemed like a very good Christian man. Besides, it is not mine to judge.

 

I know a man who turned against God when his baby boy died almost 60 years ago. To this day he wants nothing to do with God. Even after all these years of being mad at God, if he would stop blaming God and turn back to Him, he would find that God is still waiting for him to come back. God is not angry at him.

Being mad at God isn’t a good thing, but it happens. It doesn’t have to destroy you or your relationship with God, but you must allow Him to heal you. The choice is yours.

Remember that God has huge shoulders, He loves you, and He wants you to lean on those giant shoulders. They can carry any load.

So, if you are mad at God right now remember, He is not mad at you. He is there to help you through, no matter what it is. His desire is to heal you.

Think about it.