Pushing people's buttons is not a loving thing to do?

Question

Isn't that what God does all the time? Puts us in situations where you need to see if your faith is strong enough to endure the tough times? "He has a plan" it is said often. So therefore, if it's his plan that we fall into those tough situations where your faith is tested, he is putting you in those situations is he not? Therefore, by that reasoning he is not being loving. How can you accuse me, a part of God's plan to test you by pushing your buttons (if you believe in God!) of not being loving when it is simply his will that I do so? If *I* am not being loving by testing your faith, then how can you claim God is being loving by doing the same thing?

Answer 1

Actually pushing peoples buttons is a good thing, one would hope that the person being pushed would see the issues he/she has to work on, in the end that person really becomes a better person.

Answer 2

The rain falls on both the believer and the un-believer. If all good happened to believers only then people would clearly see it and believe just to receive worldly gain. God never said it would be easy, He said expect the same thing Jesus got, rebuked and mocked.

Lets just say IF Satan has ownership of my soul but I am not yet dead, he has no quarrel with me. Why shoulld satan fight for something he can already collect on.

If a person accepts Jesus and his soul is not belonging to satan then satan has a couple problems.
1. He wants all to share his fate
2. To tempt this person to sin and separate from God.
3. At the very least to not let the believer reach any others with the good news of what Jesus did for us on the cross. By bombarding them with memories of their forgiven sins or the new ones satan throws our way to entice us to fall.

God wants ,metaphor, Eagles that can fly above the chaos and see the pitfalls and soar past them.

God creates testimonies that bring Him worship for people to help others when men fall in shared experiences. That there is a hope and forgiveness and redemption that we are worth something to God.

Answer 3

Waoh! Talk about circular reasoning.

There are three reasons things happen to us, particularly as Christians. 1) We have made an unwise decision and are paying the consequences for it. 2) We live in a corrupt world with other people making either unwise decisions or directly violating our rights and so causing us grief. And 3) God, wanting us to draw closer and closer to Him, withholds from us at times to exercise our faith that He will either take care of that thing or change our direction and prepare us for something better.

A relationship with God is dynamic and you get out of it what you put into it. Through prayer and reading the Word (Bible) you gain knowledge but, as the apostle James puts it, faith without works is dead. We need to exercise that faith. That usually comes by stepping out in areas where you know God is leading (from your prayer and reading) or God actually making changes in your circumstances to cause you to adjust and lean on Him as that happens. The later many time happens to unbelievers to show them He does care.

If you are really seeking God and obeying as He leads, you can trust that He will never really let you down but will cause changes in your life, always to bring you closer and closer to Him... which is what we were created for after all.

Answer 4

On the surface you make a great point but here's the rub sweetheart, you are not God. You can never be God.
God is perfect. And His tests are perfect and His judgments are perfect.
No human being could ever measure up to that standard. No human being could know every single possible consequence of his or her actions. God can. What if, one day, you push someone's button and they pull a VA Tech on you?

Answer 5

Generally, I believe, people put themselves in situations. We have been given free will. We have a choice, do we look to God for answers to these situations, or do we chose a solution that looks perhaps easier or more profitable in the moment. I, don't feel we are being tested, we are being asked to make a choice.

Answer 6

Well, if pushing buttons is a plan to make us strong, then God, whom allows us to endure things to make us stronger, GOD ALSO GIVES US THE STRENGTH TO ENDURE IT AND PEACE AS WELL....people who push buttons, do not give us strength nor peace....but
People on the other hand who push buttons, need to be listened to, confronted and dealt with.
Your opinion is valid and important.
I have buttons everywhere....not just in my belly. And I will say that I stand up for what I believe, listen to what others believe and I do not judge. Kepp pushing buttons, I do it all the time

Answer 7

You are so right.

Some comments that are made on here can be very insulting.
Some are Mocking God, rejecting God/Jesus.

It let's me know even more so that the Bible is Truth, because Jesus warned us about people like this.
Paul warned us about people like this.

So yes, if you see it as testing my Faith, then thank you for making me stand firm in my Faith.

Answer 8

I really think people should stop blaming things on the "invisible man in the sky"-
What ever happened to personal responsibility?
Don't we, as people, put ourselves in certain situations? (not counting natural disasters and that type of thing)
What ever happened to people using their own heads and brains to make better choices instead of being passive/aggressive and leaving it all up to "the old man upstairs?"
We really should be just a little more mature and intellegent about the whole thing and grab the wheel- we really are the captains of our own ships!! Use the intellegence you were lucky enough to be born with for, God's sake!!

Answer 9

God knows our hearts and He knows us completely and knows what we can handle and knows what we need to become the child He wants us to be.

Do you? If not, then that right isn't yours.

Interesting and clever idea though.

Answer 10

Good point, Selnyk.

But just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I have the right to punish another woman's child. I can only punish my own. Think about it.