why did God want to take my father away from me and my family!!!???

Question

my father was 48 yrs old when God took him...he was a great servant.. a pastor of calvary chaple and God took him away from me and my family...and all that did was make me angry and walk away from HIM but thanks to HIS faithful servants i found him again...i miss my father and want to know why God took him!!!

Answer 1

Well, God blessed your dad to be with him first of all. Also, he may have took your dad away so the community would step up and grow and use their spiritual gifts.
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Maybe God felt your dad was such a good servent others were just slacking off and he needed your dad to be gone for it to grow. If I were to go, Going to God would be the best place!

I am sad for you to be without a dad, but happy for your dad!

Answer 2

My deepest apologies....

You know, I am sure that it was no personal vendetta of God's and if you know God then you rest in your faith that His plan is flawless and just because you feel it is wrong doesn't mean that it is.

You know then where your Father is then, could you not be happy in the thoughts of how you Dad lives now. That maybe when you die from this world you will see your Father just went and was getting ready for His Family to join Him later.... He had some other heavenly things to do.

Isn't your Father still alive? You think of Him quite often I am sure. His name is still spoke of and more so better than ever now. Are you His Family still His living legacy? So long as you live, your Father lives..... If you decide to die now because you feel God has wronged you then so will your Father. By dying, I mean no longer seeking much of a life on this planet because you are so consumed by greif and continually live in the shadow of yesterday, never really allowing yourself live today. Is that what you think your Father would have you do? It is not to be unemotional but is not a fact of life, death? And is your Father dead, or did He just leave here.... really challenges your faith, I know but don't let it fail!!!!!

Live and be happy, make your Dad smile from heaven.
Maybe you will even get to see him again!
Sounds strange, I know but My Grammy died 3 years ago and the other day in Wal-Mart as I was scanning around I thought I saw her! And she looked so pretty, she died of cancer, and she smiled at me but when I blinked she was gone! It was so AMAZING. I am a person whom with life, I accept death. I try not lose anytime here that I know of so that if I ever lose someone I don't have a whole lot of regret and I just know that this is all perfect and beyond my own understanding..... I just trust God always.

Remeber no matter what your feelings tell you.... God didn't take your Father away from you & your Family and there is no such need in dwelling on feelings like that because they are gonna just bring forth more destruction & seperation..... and that is NOT the truth!

Answer 3

Maybe He wanted you to trust Him and know that even though you don't know what's going on, that He does. Remember Romans 8:28 - that He causes even bad things to work for our good. Also remember that your Dad is in Heaven having a total blast and just waiting till you get there. That alone should be enough to help you hang on to your faith, which I'm really glad to hear you have come back to.
Get ahold of the book by Harry and Cheryl Salem called Joy in the Mourning. Their daughter went home to heaven at a young age and the mom kept asking God why. God finally told her that even if He gave her the answer she would still ask why. There are some things that we just can't understand. Thank God He does and always has our best interest in mind. For He knows the plans He has for you. Plans to prosper you, to give you hope and a future.

Answer 4

God has a master plan and it was your fathers time to rejoin his heavenly father. There is nothing anyone can tell you that is going to take the hurt you feel away. You have to find peace for yourself. My aunt, grandfather, and grandmother recently past away with in two months of each other. It hurts and i question God and I want to know why. But the truth is, only God knows why it is time to return to Him. Maybe you and your family have to go through the pain of losing your father so you are prepared to handle some task that God has for you. No one knows what is to come, or why these things happen. The only thing that is certain is that your are born, you live and when it is your time, you die.

I hope it helped in some way.

Answer 5

When you are born everyone has a divine destiny laid out by our Heavenly Father, I missed my Dad so much when he passed, but I realized that I was so blessed to have him as long as I did. I know that you are aware of people who have had there parent less time than you had your Dad. The bottom line is that God needed him in heave to do his work, and guess what he missed him even more than you do right now, so find peace and understand that God makes no mistakes, and you can not put a question mark where God has put a period, read the Serenity Pray and try to have PEACE>

Answer 6

God certainly received your father into His heavenly kingdom when his spirit departed this earth, but please don't believe the lie that says God initiated (or the more passive approach "allowed") your father's death for some cause that only He can understand.

I've lost my father too. Like you I was incredibly angry and felt that God had betrayed me and my family. And I also was angry to the point that I almost renounced Him completely. But I was so, so very wrong to do so.

The Scriptures don't teach that God controls everything on this earth. He IS Supreme and All Powerful, but He has given mankind authority and dominion in this world....and the Scriptures say that death entered in through Adam. It wasn't part of God's original creation in the garden. It is the current reality of a creation that is fallen just as surely as Adam did. As believers, we have the promise of eternal security with our Heavenly Father, and the promise that we will even ultimately experience bodily resurrection when the end of this age comes. (This means that even though your Dad's spirit is already sharing eternity with Christ, there will be such a restoration that the grave will not be able to contain his physical body either.) Check out 1 Corinthians 15 and be encouraged!

The bottom line is this: We could argue theology and what God does and doesn't allow till we're blue in the face, but all I have to do is ask you this: Did you ever read about Jesus killing someone's father just so heaven could have "one more flower in it's garden"? Did you EVER see Jesus "ministering" disease and death, suffering and destruction during His ministry as recorded in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John? The fullness of God and the expression of His grace wasn't made manifest until Christ, so we need to examine His earthly ministry very close.

I see healing and raising the dead and mercy and forgiveness and a love willing to take the suffering upon Itself in order to relieve the suffering of another....I don't see God killing and stealing beloved family members to accomplish some "higher purpose than we can understand".

That's a popular theology, but it isn't consistent with Scriptures or with God's nature. Remember this: Take comfort in knowing God RECEIVED your father when he departed this earth, but God was never the author of your father's death.

I hope this helps you. I think I understand the pain you've been through, and I'm truly sorry.

Answer 7

As a Christian you ought to know the answer to that. God works in ways that we do not understand. He obviously loved you father a great deal to call him back to Him. You know you will see your father again and that he is in Heaven with the Father. Your dad is always with you in your heart and memory. You are a part of him and he is a part of you. Make your dad proud of you and go on to be a good servant like he was, you know he will see that. Take care.

Answer 8

being a pastor's daughter you should know the line..."the devil comes to rob and steal from us" Not the Lord. "all good things come from the Lord" Everyone dies at some point. i actually lost a daughter to SIDS (crib death) and NEVER blamed God for this. She was a gift and her life had meaning. I am thankful for everyday I had with her. We never know how long we have...we are not immortal beings. Just remember your father is where he wants to be, of course you miss him...but, don't be selfish in your thinking..he is In a better place, with his Lord and Savior, I am possitive you would not want to take him from that if given the choice..just remember to live your life as a good servant of God so that you and dad can be reunited again. And, be thankful that dad made the right choice during his life....many of my loved ones took their last breath denying that God even exists. Stand faithful, and be thankful that God gave you a wonderful loving father, not everyone has been as blessed as you. Thank God that as you stand tall and endure through your grief, you are given the choice to follow in your father footsteps and be with him again!! Stand faithful and you will be full of peace and life again. Look upon your dad as a gift from God, mimic his servants heart ...it is an injustice to your dad to only think of him as something God took away from you, because God didn't take him.

Answer 9

We are all on earth for a purpose and we each a job to do. sometimes our job takes a long time to accomplish. I can only say that maybe your father had finished the job that God had for him, and that God needed him in heaven. I know that you miss him, but know that your father is watching over you, and that God still has work for you to do. My father died at an early age, and it still hurts sometimes, but I know that he is at peace and he is with God, after completing the job that God had for him to do. The pain of your loss will eventually go away. If not right away, it will in time. I will be praying for you.

Answer 10

Unfortunatly, you will not know for certain until you ask you God yourself. I don't mean in prayer but face to face stuff. We can guess that maybe your God wanted to test the family. We have heard many times that God won't give you anything you can't handle and he just wanted you to realize you could handle it. Either way, your father is watching out over you and protecting you from where he is. He still loves you and knows how much you love him. Just think of yourself in a field with a light wind blowing. That wind is him.