Some people go through life believing that God is mad at them. They blame God for every bad thing that happens to them in life. When death comes they believe that God is just waiting to send them to Hell. Maybe you have believed this yourself.
Listen friend, God is not mad at you. That is a fact. Another thing, the bad things that happen to you in this life are usually the doings of the Devil, not God. Sometimes the things that happen to us are a result of our own ignorance or carelessness.
I can guarantee you this much, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God Who created all things, the God of Heaven and earth and all it contains, is NOT, I repeat, NOT mad at you. The Bible makes one simple statement that sums it up. It says, “God is love” (1 John 4:8).
Then, it says, "GOD SO LOVED the world that he gave his only son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
Does that sound like God is mad at anyone? No, God loves you very much. He loves you and He has proven it time and again. Let's look a just a few:
The 1st time He showed His love for you was before creation! Before anything was made, God the Father and His Son, Jesus, agreed together in a plan that would guarantee you a place in Heaven. The plan was to happen in God’s Own timing.
The 2nd time God proved His love for you was after God created the earth, the trees, the animals and everything else and after He created the first man. God named him Adam. He gave Adam a garden to live in peace and good health, forever. Then God gave him authority over every creature on earth and gave him a wife and named her Eve. The only thing Adam & Eve had to do to keep these things and maintain their authority over them was to obey God in one law. That law was not to eat the fruit of one tree called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Adam did not obey God and ate fruit of the Tree. By doing this Adam lost his authority, his peace, his health, his eternal life and his right to live in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve should have died the day they disobeyed God, that was what God told them would happen for their disobedience. But God loved them both very, very much. He even loved their descendants, the children who were yet to be born. That includes you. So God spared the lives of Adam and Eve. But something had to die as the penalty for sin so, God killed an animal instead of Adam and Eve. By doing this, God would make a way for His plan to work.
The 3nd time God proved His love for you was when God sent His Son, Jesus, to earth. Jesus came to put Their plan into effect. Jesus came to earth to save anyone who would listen to the plan and believe in His authority to make it work.
The 4th time God proved His love for you was when His Son, Jesus, refused to turn from Their plan for you. He was tempted many times and one time, in another Garden called Gethsemane, the temptation became so great Jesus almost gave up on the plan. Then He thought of you and how much He loves you. It was then that He decided to go through with the plan.
The 5th time He proved His love for you was when soldiers arrested Jesus. He didn’t try to run away from them and He didn’t argue even though He knew what was going to happen to Him. Later they put a “crown” of thorns upon His head and pushed it down until blood flowed from the cuts. They beat and whipped Him. They finally led Him up a hill where they nailed His hands & feet to a cross. Then they lifted Him up into the air and stood back to watch Him die.
If it had not been for His love for you Jesus could have called down thousands of angels to kill every soldier. Even from the cross He could have destroyed every city of every nation with nothing else but His spoken command.
But you would not have been born if He had done that. He could have come down from that cross at any time but you would not be able to enter Heaven if He had. So, because of His great love for you, He chose to hang there on the cross to bleed and suffer until He died.
That was the 6th time He proved His love for you , when He died on the cross. That set the plan into effect. He took all the punishment for your sins and now, because of His love, you have a CHOICE of where you spend eternity. Either Heaven or Hell.
Jesus didn’t stay dead long. He rose from the dead, walked away from His grave and went to Heaven where He now sits at the right Hand of His Father and prays for you.
If you believe that Jesus was the Son of God and that He died for you it is only a matter of praying and asking Him to forgive you of your sins. That was the plan that began before creation. You deserved to die and go to Hell, not only because of your own sins but because you were a child of the first sinner, Adam. If you ask God to forgive your sins you become a new child, a child of God’s and no longer Adam’s.
THE God of all creation is a God of love and He is not mad at you. That has been established by 6 proven facts.
Do you want to know who is REALLY mad at you? It's the Devil. You may say, "There's no such person as the Devil." And that is his most effective weapon against you, making you believe that he doesn't exist. Listen, there really is a Devil and he is an enemy of the One True God. The Devil is the one that is mad at you.
In the Bible, First Peter, chapter 5, verse 8 it says, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour".
Here is the way the Devil hopes we see him:
As a roaring lion, someone that you should fear.
The Good News is that the Devil was defeated when Jesus was crucified, died, and walked out of the tomb, alive again and victorious over death, hell and the grave but most of all, the Devil.
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TO SEE HOW WE SHOULD REALLY VIEW THE DEVIL
The Devil wants to destroy you. He hates you, your family, and that will never change. The Devil is the "father" of lies. He wants you to believe that the One True God is mad at you. The Devil is also a deceiver, a master of hate, death, destruction, sickness, disease, poverty, war, murder, and everything evil. There is not one ounce of love in him.
One day soon, Jesus Christ is coming back to earth. Then the Devil will be thrown into Hell, a lake a fire where he will be tormented for all of eternity.
So, who will you serve? God, Who sent His Son to die for you? Or the Devil who wants to see you burn with him in Hell forever? Is that such a hard decision to make? It shouldn’t be too hard to realize who really hates you, it’s the Devil.
In the Bible it says, “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:19)
It also says, “The thief (the Devil) cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I (Jesus) am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” John 10:10.
Friend, you have read about God’s love for you and His plan that made a way for you to have a place in Heaven. Heaven is a choice. You can't work your way in to it. It’s not a matter of keeping the Ten Commandments because no man can keep them. To break one is to break them all. And to break any at all is a ticket to Hell. That is, unless you take advantage of the plan that God and His Son have already worked out for you. The work has been done and nothing you can do can add to it. So don’t try to work a way into Heaven. Just accept the fact that God loves you. He’s certainly not mad at you and He has given you the choice of Heaven as a free gift because He loves you so much, just as you are.
Pray this prayer, “Dear Jesus, I have sinned and am sorry. I know now that You do love me and are not mad at me. I believe that You are the Son of God, that You died for me, that You rose again and now sit at the right Hand of Your Father in Heaven. Help me to live the life You would have me to live. Send Your Holy Spirit to live in me and to guide me. Thank you. Amen”
Congratulations! You are now a Child of God and going to Heaven. Now find a church that believes in the same thing that you have just read and begin going to services. There you will learn more about God's love for you. It's also important for you to get a Bible (God's Book of love for you) and begin to read it. Ask the Lord to help you understand it and He will.
