"God Cares Deeply"

Sometimes we feel all alone and our thinking starts running like no one cares. Our thoughts begin to run to the point that not even God cares. If He cared, why doesn't He do something or help?

Eliphaz was one of Job's friends. He offered to Job the same line of thinking we are talking about. While thinking he is exalting God, he ends up asking Job if God really cares or is there any profit in our response to God. (Job 22) Eliphaz got it all wrong and backwards and in the end, God condemns Eliphaz along with his two friends because in all their thought process, they did not represent the truth about God. God cared for Job and expressed it early on.

For us, we have been touched with the ease of society and our thinking has been tainted at times with the wisdom and process of the world. There is so much ungodly and evil behavior around us that it has shaped some of our reasoning's and ideas. We look at the corruption in government, the injustices of society, the ill health and depression that runs rampant among people and we start viewing God through these eyes and endless books.

Do you think God gets pleasure to see us struggle against all odds? Do you believe God just sits and twiddles His thumbs while we are in pain from losing battles in our lives? Who and what is shaping our thinking? We need to spend more time with God, listening to His voice and allow Him to develop our thinking. It matters deeply to God that we hurt but sometimes that hurt has a great spiritual purpose. It helps us trust, helps our faith and shows us that we are His children. The next time you are called upon to forgive the one who walked over you or took advantage of your kindness, you are standing with God. When you feel the desire to isolate yourself from others but you go, knowing it pleases the Lord, you are growing under His grace. When you shut your mouth rather than let words fly in anger and hurt, you are not allowing the evil to flow from you but God's power and grace to have an effect over others. To stand and do what's right is helping God battle the forces of evil and one day it will all come out. You will see the glory of it all and hear the words: "Well done!"