WHY GOD IS SOMETIMES HARD ON US?

The Bible says that God is always near us even when we can’t feel him.  The Bible continue tells us in Revelation 21:4 that there is coming a time when all sorrow, tears, pain and death will pass away. There's coming a wonderful day when God will wipe away all tears

In the world today we must face the undeniable fact that people do suffer. That's a fact of life; in our life today we continue to find sickness, sorrow, and suffering in all walks of our life. It's everywhere we look. The question which we keep asking ourselves: Why does God allow it to happen? Does God even care? If God is so good and holy, then why doesn't He put an end to all suffering and pain? 

May God test us to check how strong we are in faith; as Psalm 139:23 reminds us "Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts"

It is true that, none of us likes to go through hard times. Always God can use hard times to show us our weaknesses. And when that happens, we need to ask God to help our faith grow. Testing should make us spiritually stronger and it will as we turn it over to God.

The Bible says, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials ... so that you may be mature and complete" James 1:2, 4.

How can we distinguish these two phrases?

·        But when hard times come, a weak faith will be revealed for what it really is:

·        But when hard times happen, the true nature of our faith will be revealed.

God reminds us that it is true that no one can please everyone? If that is true it is a waste of time trying to make everyone like you? If that is true why don’t you be just you? Hence what you have to decide is how you want your life to be. Therefore God ask us to trust him and to believe in him in all times.

·        ” God doesn’t give you the people you want; he gives you the people you need. To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you the person you were meant to be”

·        “I made her in such a way, that she would need me. I made her a little more lonesome than she would like to be…Only because I need for her to lean and depend on Me…I know her heart, I know if I had not made her like this, She would go her own chosen way And forget Me…her Creator”. (Psalm 62:5-8)

·        “I have given her many good and happy things because I love her”. (Psalm 84:11, Romans 8:23)

·        “Many times, she has stumbled and fallen alone only because she would not hold My Hand, So many lessons she’s learned the hard way. Because she would not listen to My voice…” (Isaiah 53:6)

·        “So many times I have sat back And sadly watched her go her merry way alone. Only to watch her return to My arms, sad and broken”. (Isaiah 62:2)

Bible tells us that, God sees the need to put us through some things for the purpose of making us strong, and teach us patience as  Romans 5:3 tells us; Trouble and weakness can also teach us to depend on God’s strength [2 Corinthians 2, 11]. How ?

·        God uses hard experiences to prepare us to help others in new ways, and it can give us new opportunities to serve.

·        Jesus was obedient in his suffering, and so he became our way back to God and our example. Believers throughout the ages have been comforted knowing they could glorify God and make him happy by how they responded to painful times.

·        It is unique time to inspire and encourage others to be like Jesus.    

·        Much suffering comes because of our broken world and broken relationships, God has promised to use suffering for our good.

·        God promises that even when we experience pain or evil that seems to have no purpose, He will take the bad things that happen and make them work out for good; he will change them from meaningless to valuable. Everything will work to transform us to be more like Jesus [Romans 8:28], and to bring good for us, for God’s kingdom, and ultimately for God’s glory.

Therefore God wants us to be attached to him, he knows that what happens when things will not work well therefore ‘Never get too attached to anyone else rather than him; because attachments lead to expectations and expectations lead to disappointments’. But in HIM NO DISAPPOINTMENTS IT IS ONLY JOY ALTHOUGH YOU MIGHT PASS THROUGH HARD TIMES.