Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. When you become a whole new person by trusting in Jesus, you have His Spirit living inside you. But you are still you…and you might still want to do things your own way. You might feel like telling a lie to protect yourself. You might feel like being mad or saying mean things to somebody. But these are all ways you can make God sad.
Wanna know how you can make Him happy instead? Keep reading…. But you should never let it get the best of you. So, find good things to say to others. Hosea Hosea 11 is another passage where God expresses His feeling towards the apostasy of His people:. As they called them, so they went from them; They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to carved images.
I drew them with gentle cords, with bands of love, and I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. I stooped and fed them. And the sword shall slash in his cities, devour his districts, and consume them, because of their own counsels. My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, None at all exalt Him. How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah?
How can I set you like Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred. I will not execute the fierceness of My anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim. He will roar like a lion. When He roars, then His sons shall come trembling from the west; They shall come trembling like a bird from Egypt, like a dove from the land of Assyria. This passage shows another aspect going on in the heart of God concerning the rebellion of His people.
His fierce anger and his sympathy were in struggle in Him. When the Bible says that his people provoked him to anger it is very real! God is a long suffering God and slow to anger but He does get angry! It takes long to make Him angry. Think about it in terms of a parent. A father, out of love, might allow his child to make his own choices, good or bad. He might even know that some of the choices his child was making would end up bad for the child, yet he would give the child the free rein to either fail or succeed on his own.
The son calls the father and says that he is going to drop out of college to design skateboards. A loving father might try to talk sense into his son, but in the end he will let him go and make a mess of his life, even though it would make him very sad to see his son fail in the end.
Consider the words of Jesus at the end of Matthew If you recall, this was the chapter that I read to you last week as an example of the anger of God. He is angry with them because they are not only defying God with their hidden sin but they are causing other people to stumble.
But, if you recall, I pointed out last week that Jesus is not angry with the sinner, but with the sin. At the end of Matthew 23 we see that he is also sad for the sinner. Listen to his words:. Sadly, this is not just a chance encounter like a plague or an earthquake: this is a judgment from God that will be a direct result of their sin.
God, as a loving father, allowed them to make their own choice to sin and allowed them to suffer the consequences. Yet, look at the reaction of Jesus. With great sadness Jesus is showing his sadness for the sinful behavior of those in Jerusalem and the coming consequences that will come from those sins.
It is his desire to gather together the people and protect them from the coming destruction, much like a mother hen would gather together her chicks.
Jesus wanted Jerusalem to be spared: that was his expectation, yet the reality is that they would have to pay for their sins. The same could be said for all of us. But, as a loving father he allows us to make our own choices, even it those choices lead to our destruction.
You might say that God is sad because of our sins: it is his desire that everyone get saved, and he wants to gather us together into his protection of eternal life like a mother hen gathering his chicks. But he must allow the unrepentant sinner to face his eternal end because he is a just God.
I would imagine that anytime we see Jesus encountering a person who was lost in their sins that his emotions were those of sadness: that we would willingly allow sin and its consequences to have rule in our lives.
And that leads us to our final example. This is a time when Jesus could not do many miracles. Mark 1 Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. Jesus had come back to his hometown, the place where everyone knew him. They remembered him as a little boy, they knew his mom and dad, they saw him as one of them.
It is hard for the hometown boy to come home as a hero. I remember when I was ordained my elder proclaimed in his charge to me that I could never be the minister there. It sounded pretty harsh but he only meant that I would never be able to minister effectively because they knew me too well: to them I could never be a minister, I was little Robby to them. The same was true for Jesus in his hometown: they could not see him as a wise rabbi, a healer, or a miracle-worker… much less the Messiah.
They took offense at him and his attempts to heal them or do any other miracles. As a result, Jesus was not able to do many miracles there. Only the very sick, those who had nothing but faith, could be healed: those who have nowhere else to turn tend to have the most faith. Jesus could not do many miracles because the people in his hometown refused to turn to him for healing.
His amazement was a sign of great sadness: he was sad that they would not turn to him to be healed. Their stubbornness and pride prevented them from turning to the one person who could give them life and healing. Imagine how you would feel if you went up to the house of a poor person who was about to lose their house and offered to pay off their mortgage and had them slam the door in your face.
You would walk away, shaking you head to think that someone would turn down such a great offer. Think about how Jesus must have felt to think that his own townspeople would turn their back on him, even though they knew that he spoke with authority and performed miracles. It saddened Jesus to think that people would turn down healing because of their pride.
Considering that, imagine how sad God must feel when we reject his attempt to heal us of our sin and the curse of death that results. He looked down at our fallen state and had compassion, sending his son to pay the penalty for our sin. Can you imagine how sad it must make God when we ignore that gift and out of stubborn pride miss out on such a great healing salvation?
Imagine how sad God must feel when we reject the healing in our life that we could have by turning over our sorrows to him. When we reject the answers that we could have by refusing to turn to him in prayer. When we reject the comfort that we could have by refusing to turn to him when we are hurting. When we reject the wisdom that we could have by turning to his word for guidance. It must surely amaze God that we refuse the great healing that he offers in so many ways because of our lack of faith.
And rest assured, that amazement is one of sadness. Let me bring all this together for us in closing, because each of these incidents in which God in human form shows his sadness illustrates how God the Father is also sad:.
I believe that God is sad that we have to face death, disease, war, crime, hatred and so forth. Jesus was sad to see Jerusalem suffering because of their rebellion. He has given us his law and his word to show us how to live, yet we continue to sin against him, bringing judgment and suffering upon ourselves. Even though he was in his own hometown the people would not trust in him. Their lack of faith kept them from being healed.
Not only do we reject his salvation, we reject his guidance, his forgiveness, his comfort, his joy and his hope. All because we refuse to believe. This, I think, causes God the most sadness. Sadness: the emotion we feel when our expectation does not match our reality. Jesus felt this many times during his time on earth, always in response to our sin and the consequences on us. God feels the same way to us when we suffer needlessly. For you see, we need not suffer, we can turn to God and find the full life that he desires for us.
We can escape this sinful world, we can escape the judgment that we have brought upon ourselves, we can have the healing in every aspect of our life that we so desperately need.
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