Saturday, May 31, 2014

Angered or Saddened?

Over the past few months I've been thinking about different people I know, and the lifestyle's they have chosen to engage in. Some of them have been very destructive by choice, and others have been "forced" into certain situations. And as I've thought about it a question has come to my mind, "Does our sin anger or sadden God?" Maybe more appropriately it should be phrased, "Do the sinful acts we chose to engage in anger of sadden God?"

If you had asked me a year ago I most likely would have said anger without a second thought. But since then the circumstances of my life have change significantly, and I've started to see things with a different lense. I'm still fully believing that the Bible is the foundation for truth as God's written word, but I've started to read with another pair of eyes and see things from another perspective.

The more I've thought about it I'm starting to lean towards our sinful acts saddening God. Think about it, when someone you love engages in something you know is bad for them, something that will only lead them to destruction and ruin their life, doesn't your heart break for them?

The Bible tells us that we are God's children. We are more prized and loved by God than we can ever know. He is the loving Father, and we are the children He delights in. We steal His heart with that first smile. All He wants is the best for us, and when a child does something that isn't best for them, it saddens the parent who loves them.

When we choose to engage in sinful behavior it pulls us away from God. When we choose to sin, we choose something opposite of God. I think God is saddened when we choose things that aren't best for us, things that pull us away from Him. And when we choose to engage in it I think it breaks His heart.

"I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging bread."

To God alone be the Glory!

Peace be with you