What Kind of A God Do You Know/Serve? My God Is A Life-Giver NOT a Killer!

I'm writing this because I think I have part of the answer I have been looking for and because I want to help some people who have been and are going through what I have been... I engage in intense discussions with people from time to time (I like knowing what other people think, heheh). I have lost very dear people in my life and I recently lost a very dear friend of mine (all through death). Honestly as much as I kind of accepted what has happened, I’d always have questions. Recently, when I heard the news about my friend’s passing, I firstly put the blame on me: that I should have prayed for him' then the blame game moved to God that 'God why didn't you save him, even if I didn't pray, You said that Your grace is sufficient for us...etc' (Because I knew something, that God is a life giver), so something didn’t add up. ( I thought about the great Men Of God in the Old Testament who died because they were very old, the physical body limited them, the body was too old), so why him because he was young , well and everyone else who is died young.........................................................................................................................................................

Look, the fact of the matter is that I sought answers and I never had NEW answers because in my heart I knew that the Bible says " God is good" I then went to the Bible, heheheh, there are lots of verses saying the very same, Glory to Good! Some of them are:........................................................................................................... ........................................
Psalm 100:5 " For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations." Psalm 34:8 " Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

Through the discussions I usually have with different people, I discovered that there are a lot of people who put a blame of God for almost everything that happens to them. To them God is BAD because He allows bad things to happen to them. The people I talked to were saying, "I've always had to struggle for everything in my life, He took my parents while I was still young; He took my baby, He took my mom, He blesses everyone else but not me; He allowed that woman to take my hubby..." Oh! *I just wana cry just thinking about this* ...................................................................................................................................................................

I just want to challenge you today: think about this: 

 1. This is a God who saw that His people were gonna die of sin, then gave His one and only Son to die for us. So that we may live. Who would do that? There is no greater love that this TRUST ME. 
 2. This is a God who saw to it that Adam and Eve were covered/clothed even after they went against His instruction.
 3. This is the very same God that healed the sick, raised the dead, fed the hungry and He still does. Aaah!
 4. The very same God who gave us the gift of righteousness. 
 5. The very same God who said that "I am the God of all mankind, Is there anything difficult for me" 
 6. The very same God who gave us the Great Holy Spirit and Name of Jesus and oh boy! there is nothing greater!! Mark 16:17-18 "17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well." (Look, I can search the scriptures and find more and more about His Goodness.). This is the God I know. Yes, the God I know & Serve. He is a good God. 

Do you think God loves to see us cry, depressed, hurt etc? No he doesn't, He doesn't! That is why he wants us preach the gospel to everyone, the gospel of Jesus Christ is the Good News. Think about it: why would God make you suffer by taking your parents, by letting you be pregnant for 9 months then kill your baby after 6 months of giving birth, by making you to be a victim of all these circumstances, etc? The very same God who let His Son die that kind of death for you? Huh? Think about it: In John 10:10 He says "10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)." You see, do you see who kills, destroys and Steals? Do you see for yourself, huh?.. Ok.! Oh, how we are so quick to put the blame on God, this has got to stop!

 Last word: we see the Tsunami's, earthquakes, cyclones etc we blame God as well. When I hear of such, I always think of the days of Noah, after the great flood (GEN 9), This is what God said "Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9 Behold, I establish My covenant or pledge with you and with your descendants after you 10 And with every living creature that is with you--whether the birds, the livestock, or the wild beasts of the earth along with you, as many as came out of the ark--every animal of the earth. 11 I will establish My covenant or pledge with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; neither shall there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth and make it corrupt. 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant (solemn pledge) which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I set My bow [rainbow] in the cloud, and it shall be a token or sign of a covenant or solemn pledge between Me and the earth. 14 And it shall be that when I bring clouds over the earth and the bow [rainbow] is seen in the clouds, 15 I will [earnestly] remember My covenant or solemn pledge which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy and make all flesh corrupt."...

You see!?! Hahah! God doesn’t go against His Word, What he says He’ll do, He surely does, He is Faithful, that is why His Word is so dependable! Pastor Chris once said “Christians are the restraining power/force to the devil, that’s why we Christians MUST pray always” this truth I’ll never forget. The best things is that He has given us power over the devil so it is up to us to endorse or press the devil down and to makle sure he stays there. *oh refuse to endorse the devil*.

Remember, your views matter to me, lets us help one another. God is a good God!!!