God value humans, happiness, suffering
Q: Does God have regard for human life? It seems I never win, and like the Lord is fake and hypocritical the way he failingly "provides"/"cares" seems so sad... and opposite of happiness.
A: You have a misunderstanding somewhere about God, and this life. I hope this can help.
God created us all, and put a high value on us, as we were made in His Image.
Yes. The entire Bible is proof he does care. He cared so much Jesus came, paid immensely at extreme cost to prove God's love. Further, he blesses and cares in a special way for his adopted children (through Jesus upon obeying the Gospel). And promises them rewards, inheritance and life eternal in His Kingdom.
The primary need of man is to be right with God, as tomorrow isn't guaranteed. Many will come to Him for wrong reasons and by false gospels that falsely promise a happy life on earth. But if you die tonight or tomorrow the things of earth have no value. So in place of your wants and desires, God wants what's best for you. This illustration can help clarify the point.
Besides false gospels don't save, they're just deception. And God by Scripture tells us Satan blinds men from the truth lest they see and be saved. Temporary things of earth are not what we should be focused on. God will take care of the things basic we need both to survive, get through hard times, etc if our focus is on His righteousness and His will. We are to be like Christ and that was his focus, so it needs to be ours.
We can look at how God provided for all believers across all of Scripture, from Eden to Elijah to Noah to Abraham's concubine, to Moses and the Hebrews, to the godly in Israel, to Jesus (who was poor and had no home), to the things the Apostles encountered and the martyrs from then till now who suffered varied persecution first. You see God with them, working in them, through the circumstances, to bring about a good. Leading folk to salvation and growing the Faith of the one going through sanctification, because God loves them, and how it impacts those around them, those in future years..., even us today,... and will continue to in the future, cuz they remained faithful.
We also learn of the failures of others, and the evil of other others, such as those who selfishly only wanted free stuff from Jesus like food, and not eternal life which he offered. They were focused on the temporary things of this world and what they could get for their selfish selves. And likewise OT & NT folk who tried to get special abilities to use for selfish evil desires, and not for God's purposes in righteousness.
Yet we do go through hard times on earth. Its a Fallen world cuz man sinned and caused it all, but God is working it all out, to restore us in Christ, and lead us thru this world and into eternity where these sufferings, trials, persecution, diseases and death will never happen again.
The world is messed up cuz of mankind, so we can't unjustly blame God who made it perfect, wasn't at fault for its fall, and gave us a will and choice to live in sin, or live in righteousness.
Understanding the basics of Christianity and who God is, is very important.
Our joy is in Christ. Happiness is temporary and ever fading. Happiness minded is self focused not focused rightly on God and righteous minded/living. Our eternity will be one of an everlasting joy. God is with us now as our loving Father, Christ our Savior, Priest and Medisyor, and the Holy Spirit who gave us spiritual life, sealed us, indwelling us, guides, teaches, and is the promise of our uniting with Christ, who will Himself as our Bridegroom, present us for all to see on the Day of Salvation [that great last day, when we recieve our rewards and enter eternity to evermore be with Him, as his Bride]. Our best life will be in eternity 😊. And thats far better than anything a measly 20 to 80 years on a fallen earth could ever offer us. Choose God and His plan for us, to be blessed.
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