God's wrath?

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Gods wrath?
About 4 months ago i got the flu. It was horrible, and i had some of the worst symptoms you can get. I got better after a week and fully recovered soon after. I figured i wouldnt get the flu again, because i figured i'd be immune. But i didnt take into account the other strains. A month ago i contracted a second strain, and my symptoms were three times as bad as the last time, and it took me about 3 weeks to fully recover (my symptoms were paralysis, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., normal, yes, but bad). After the first and before the second, I hadnt been obeying god very much, and personally, i think i needed a good old kick in the *** to get moving and do what i needed to do. But i didnt, and even though i was the symbol of perfect health (I ate right, lifted weights, ingested plenty of antioxidants, etc. etc.), somehow my resitance became extremely low and I got the worst flu of my life. Was god trying to punish me for not obeying him?I could always just have a horrible immune system

Answer 1

Gee, I am sorry to hear you've been so sick. It's especially tough to go through when you're usually healthy. Kind of a shock.

If all that getting sick did for you was to turn your mind to God and chastise yourself for not obeying Him then I would say that getting sick was a great thing!

There is nothing wrong with re-examing our lives when times get bad. Hardship takes us right back to the cross where Christ suffered terribly.

I know it's hard to embrace suffering but God understands our weakness and will carry us through.

Don't assume He was punishing you because unless He tells you very clearly the reason you were so sick it will have to remain a mystery for now. Just be glad you got your mind back to spiritual things. It's a good place to be.

God bless you.

Answer 2

J. M.!
I am sure that GOD was not chastening you!
He doesn´t kick any of His beloved children anywhere even when they don´t obey Him. He sure gets sad.
He takes care and cures them, whenever they ask Him to.
What might have happened is that YOU did something wrong to yourself, either to your body or to your spirit.
As a consequence of your action, psychological or physiological your immune system was low.
The most important is that you felt the need to go back under His wings where you know you should never have left.
GOD IS LOVE!

Answer 3

Well there is always a guilt factor that comes into play whenever bad things happen to us. But I doubt it. Name me one apostle from the Bible that suffered diseases anytime he was off track?

I would see bad things for what they are, bad things. They happen to everyone and it was simply your turn. Do realize that as a believer, Gods promise is not to make your body perfect and protected in this life, it is to save your soul and save others through your message of the Gospel.

Answer 4

God does not give you anything you can't handle. I can't tell you if God made you ill, but that's something between you and the Man above. If you are asking this question of us, then obviously you must have ticked the Big Guy off. This is between you and Him. I'm not getting involved. I have a fear of God and I try never to **** him off.

Answer 5

God's wrath !!!
this reminds me something like Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, a sermon preached in the 18th century !

Answer 6

depends on what you did.... if you killed someone one the hells yes god was punishing you.... but if you jsut wenrt going to church i dont think he was punishing you... i tihnk god is a very resonable guy..... besides... you mightve still been sick from the first flu and the second flu jumped right on top of that

Answer 7

hope you are feeling bether now!

you are asking if God was punishing you,so maybe you are a christian and wouldnt realy want to hear my islamic opinon?

you can always try to strengthen your immune system,with honey,vit c and so on.maybe its the weather
but always say thanks God,because it could of been worst even.

Answer 8

God allows suffering in the world for many reasons.

First suffering can be a test of faith such as described in

1Pe 1:7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Second, suffering can be a sanctifying experience. Joseph saw how an apparent evil towards him was meant for a greater good by God:

Gen 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Third, suffering could be a chastisement as the result of sin in a person’s life. Chastisement does not mean complete and total rejection by God, only that our souls may be cleansed from the malady of sin. Paul spoke of this chastisement:

1Co 11:29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
1Co 11:30 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.
1Co 11:31 But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
1Co 11:32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Yet, not all illnesses or sickness is the result of sin. Christ clearly said as much:

Joh 9:1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
Joh 9:2 And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
Joh 9:3 Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Jesus did not imply that the man or his parents had not sinned. He meant that the man’s blindness was not a direct result of sin in their lives. God had allowed this man to be born blind in order that the man might become a means of displaying the mighty works of God. Before the man was born, the Lord Jesus knew He would give sight to those blind eyes.

Fourth, suffering can sometimes be considered a means by which we display the sympathy of Christ in a practical manner, thus proving our faith through works. The Apostle Paul notes:

Col 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

The afflictions endured by Paul in his flesh were for the sake of Christ's body, namely, the church. The sufferings of non-believing people are, in one sense, purposeless. There is no high dignity attached to these sufferings. They are only a foretaste of the torment of hell to be endured forever. But the suffering of the believer is not the same. When believers suffer for Christ, Christ in a very real way suffers with them.

Fifth, suffering can be a means by which we are tempered (strengthened) for the eventualities to come. Christ, when speaking to Peter of his eventual death stated:

Joh 21:18 Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.

Like the old saying, “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”, suffering can build us up so that we are better prepared for the future and its travails.

Sixth, suffering can be used as a witness to others of God’s unmerited grace. Our attitude towards an illness, accident, etc. and our reception of the same speak volumes when our spoken testimony is rejected.

Seventh, suffering is sometimes a means of weaning us from the things of this world to cause us to draw nearer to God. Suffering should be a means of educating us to the prospect of heaven. This earthly world is not the home of the believer. We are pilgrims and strangers whose citizenship is in another place. Our minds should be focused on things invisible and not in the temporal things of this life.

We must remember that with the fall of mankind in Eden sin entered the world, corrupting earth and all its inhabitants. Thus we have sin directly causing suffering when sinful people commit sinful acts. We have sin causing suffering indirectly by the deteriorating earth and all its natural disasters.

Some people argue that since God made everything, He made evil too. But an omnipotent God could not have created a morally free creature incapable of choosing evil. That does not mean God made evil. Yes, God is the author of everything in the created universe.

But evil is not a thing or a substance; it is a privation or lack in things (blindness is lack of sight, pain is lack of health, hate or murder is lack of love). Therefore God did not create evil.

Christ told us that we would suffer in this world:
Joh 16:33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.

But why doesn’t God just stop evil actions that cause innocent people to suffer?


Jer 12:1 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Jer 12:2 You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth and far from their heart.

Why doesn’t God intervene to stop evil if He is all-loving and all-powerful? Why doesn’t He stop the drunk driver’s car that is going to crash into a bus? Why doesn’t He deflect the murderer’s bullets? The person asking doesn’t really want God to stop all their evil actions. They don’t want to be invisibly gagged every time they’re about to say something hurtful; they don’t want to stub their toe when they try to kick the dog. They just think it would be good if God stopped certain evil acts or just the evil acts of others. But that would make life impossible. There would be no freedoms, no regularity and no personal responsibility.

Having said that, never forget that God is not indifferent to our sufferings. God restrains sin and sinners so that we can appreciate mercy and unmerited grace in light of sin. If He did not our streets would be running with blood drawn by the lost, hell bound, and sin bent.

Answer 9

TESTING 1,2,3.
TESTING 1,2,3.

Maybe it is a test of your faith. Whatever it is, if it draws you closer to God, that's GREAT !!!