{"id":3281,"date":"2021-04-12T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T11:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2021-04-12T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T11:37:40","slug":"god-is-different-than-we-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=3281","title":{"rendered":"God is different than we expect."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
“Today, I would like to talk about the disappointment of God. (First) something significant to you. Ranking of your values. What is the greatest value in your life? The greatest value in life. For me, it is that God has redeemed me. The biggest value in my life. Because I could have everything, and I would then take it all to hell. And when you are not grateful to God until death for redeeming you, and you demand from Him, as a claim for your life to be healthy, happy, he has a lot of money blessed to prosper. When he does not give it to you, you will be angry and disappointed, so you’re ungrateful. If it is not enough for you that the precious blood of the Son of God has been 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: \u201cYou know, I am grateful to God for saving me; I am grateful to Him as 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. \u201d 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, great and noble majesty, and if you say that, as God could only afford, it does not come true for me, how do I even have to wait as long as possible that he doesn’t answer me, as he even dares to be silent. You get a little angry; then you get a little angrier, then you are disappointed, then you walk like those whom God he hurt so much, whom God hurt so much, then you are very ungrateful. “ 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\u2026 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 \u2014 for example, to be your personal servant, bodyguard, and financial advisor in one person \u2014 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, in no way disturbed by God\u2026 “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)<\/h2>\n
P.S .: CATHOLICS have always been aware of the reality of spiritual growth and what St. Augustine. But PROTESTANTISM, with its thesis of “sola fide” and “once saved – forever saved,” largely rejected this idea (although it is slowly returning to it, and that is 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 prosper, I will be successful, rich,\u2026 – finally, out of the desire for such a “confirmation” of God’s grace and forgiveness, that “Protestant work ethic” was born. But if success does not come and is replaced by a 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: and beaten whomsoever he received 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, 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 it, yet for the sake of that which 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)<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"