Don’t Blame Fate When Things Go Wrong

Have you ever had a conversation with someone and all they do is complain? I mean no matter what you say to them it’s like its shooting over their head and they just keep on complaining. We humans find it very easy to play the “blame game”, its so easy for us to present an endless inexhaustible list of reasons for the awful circumstance s in our lives. We have a very strong tendency to blame fate for the things that happen in our lives, well STOP IT!
We read in Job 5:7-16 5 “Call for help, Job, if you think anyone will answer!
To which of the holy angels will you turn? The hot temper of a fool eventually kills him, the jealous anger of a simpleton does her in. I’ve seen it myself—seen fools putting down roots, and then, suddenly, their houses are cursed. Their children out in the cold, abused and exploited, with no one to stick up for them. Hungry people off the street plunder their harvests, cleaning them out completely, taking thorns and all, insatiable for everything they have. Don’t blame fate when things go wrong trouble doesn’t come from nowhere. It’s human! Mortals are born and bred for trouble, as certainly as sparks fly upward.(my favorite version, The Message)
We ask “why this happening to me”? When we are bewildered by life, we cry out to anyone who will listen, “What is the point of what I’m going through?” Our thoughts become confused, our emotions spin wildly out of control, and our steps slowed. Scripture answers these questions. In response to “Why,” it tells us that we live in a fallen world filled with sinful people that even the redeemed struggle with sin, and that Satan, the “ruler of this world” has great influence here. No wonder why trials happen!
But isn’t there something else that we should be wise to consider? Namely, what is God’s purpose in our adversity? It could be that He desires to get our attention because we have ignored His other signals. Or it could be to keep our attention on Him. We read in Exodus 16:3 The Israelite s said to them, "If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” to the Israelite s , it must have seemed a great trial to have no food left at the end of each day. But God knew that if He provided more than one day’s supply at a time, the people would stop looking to Him. This “trial” kept their attention on their Provider.
I believe that Adversity can be a great tool to remind us of God’s great love for us. We can become so used to His love that we don’t appreciate it until we hit that proverbial “bump in the road”. What’s more, hardships can help us to know the Lord in a deeper way. To experience Him as our comfort requires that there be a need for comfort. Or perhaps He wants to lead us into self-examination. We tend to ignore our wanderings from God’s ways. When we’re stopped by an obstacle in the road, we have time to discover the wrong turns we’ve made.
We as followers of Christ should always seek a godly response to disappointments that they we may face. Since our Lord always has a perfect plan for our lives, the wisest reaction is to anticipate the good he will do and wait His perfect timing. God will Sheppard you though setbacks and sorrows while growing your faith
I close with this scripture, Romans 8:28 and we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose!!
Blessings! 