God is different from what we expect

“Today I would like to talk about the disappointment of God. (First) something very important to you. Ranking of your values. What is the highest value in your life? The highest value in life. For me, it’s that God has redeemed me. The highest value in my life. Because I could have everything and would then take it all to hell. And if you are not grateful to God until death for redeeming you, and you demand from Him as a claim to your life that you be healthy, happy, have a lot of money blessed to prosper, and if you do not give it, yet you will be upset and disappointed, so you are a great ungrateful. If it is not enough for you to have the precious blood of the Son of God shed, if it is not enough for you to have life forever, if it is not enough for you to be rewarded 100 times more in this life, albeit in another way, if it is not enough for you, that you have eternal life, but you want you to be healthy, content, to prosper, to be respected, to be recognized, to God finally and in time to give you a partner, let him kindly wake up to wake up , then you are very ungrateful. We once talked to a brother about this topic, and he said to me: “You know, I am grateful to God for saving me; I am grateful to Him for such a dog. And if he didn’t give me anything for the rest of his life and just kicked me, I would still be grateful. I’ll be happy anyway because he’s already given me everything. ” That is why I tell you, if you are disappointed in God, if you are disappointed that your ideas, dreams, and ideals have not come true for you, the great and noble majesty, and if you say that as God could only afford, it does not come true for me how I have to wait as long as possible for him not to answer me as he even allows himself to be silent, and then you get a little angry, then you get a little more angry, then you are disappointed, then you walk like those whom God, so he hurt him a lot, then you are very ungrateful. ”(Mário Tomášik, Fellowship at St. Martin’s Cathedral)
In other words:
God is calling me to deification – and will do in my life all that will be necessary for me to be deified, no matter what it will be: poverty, wealth, pain, bliss, good living, homelessness, home, exile, respect whether the persecution…
This life is not a hotel but a training camp for saints – deified people. His goal is not a “comfortable life” but “hard training.” If you expect anything else from God — for example, to be your personal servant, bodyguard, and financial advisor in one person — you will naturally be disappointed in God.
This is, after all, HELL: A place where people go, to whom God and His offer do not sit and want to do their own “projects” there, not disturbed by God in any way…
“Whenever there is oppression or tribulation, it is a rebuke to us and a rebuke. For not even our Scripture promises us peace, security, and peace, nor does the gospel conceal affliction, oppression, and offense. But “he who endures to the end will be saved.” (St. Augustine)
<Would you find any indications of this attitude in Richard’s story? >
P.S .: CATHOLICS have always been aware of the reality of spiritual growth and what St. Augustine. But PROTESTANTISM (and Richard was a Protestant) with its thesis of “sola fide” and “once saved – forever saved” largely rejected this idea (although it is slowly returning to it, and that’s good). From a Protestant point of view, a sign of God’s grace and forgiveness should be that God will bless me because He no longer has a reason not to do so. So, it will remove my problems; I will succeed, be successful, rich, … – finally, out of the desire for such “confirmation” of God’s grace and forgiveness, that “Protestant work ethic” was born. But if success does not come and is replaced by crisis and “night,” the Protestant is confused and disappointed – unlike a Catholic who (for example, thanks to St. John of the Cross) knows that it is a necessary part of the “training” of God’s sons and daughters, as the Bible finally says, “5 And ye have forgotten the encouragement which is spoken unto you as your son, saying, My son, despise not the Lord’s upbringing, neither let him wax low when he rebukes thee. he will beat anyone he adopts as a son. ” 7 What you bear for your correction. God treats you as sons. And whose son wouldn’t a father scold? 8 If you are outside the upbringing in which everyone has participated, then you are illegitimate children, not sons! 9 And then our fathers of the flesh raised us and respected them. Won’t we submit more to the Father of spirits and live ?! 10 And they rebuked us for a short time, and as they saw, but because of what is useful, that we might partake of his holiness. 11 True, every education in the present does not seem joyful, but cruel; later, however, it bears the reassuring fruit of justice for those it has trained. 12 Therefore raise weak hands and broken knees! (Heb 12: 5-12
P.P.S .: HELL in the Catholic (and mostly also in the Christian) understanding is actually a place created by people disappointed with God. As the philosopher James Potter Moreland puts it: “Hell will be an eternal monument of human dignity and the greatness of one’s independent decision-making. It is a sheltered place where God says two important things: ‘I respect the freedom to decide so much that I will not force anyone to go where I want, and I value the bearers of my form so much that I will never destroy them.’ ” Christians this place, where each person can live forever and definitively on his own, without God, outside of God and not according to God, they call hell because they believe (and modern psychology agrees with them) that no such path can and cannot lead to complete and final happiness, this is possible only with God, in God and according to God. Without God, man is condemned to seek eternity and fulfillment forever, never find and gradually despair (S. Kierkegaard) of the boredom that the world without God will eventually bring him (B. Pascal).