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Feeling Abandoned By God

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I don’t answer all the comments on my videos because I don’t feed trolls but occasionally there are honest questions, like this one.

These kinds of questions are the ones many people are asking, one you might be asking, and this is my response to this comment and to you.

I certainly understand your pain and anger.

I felt abandoned when I learned I was adopted.

I felt abandoned when my father died when I was 8.

I felt abandoned when my mother died when I was 30.

I felt abandoned when I was unemployed.

I felt abandoned when future plans dissolved.

I felt abandoned when my prayers weren’t answered.

Abandonment is what I feel when God says no or wait.

Abandonment is what I feel when I think I deserve something that doesn’t happen the way I want.

Abandonment is what I feel like when I feel like I have put in the work and I feel like I am ignored by both God and man.

Jesus felt abandoned.

“From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).”

Matthew 27:45-46

I don’t know why you should trust God but I trust God because He loved me, provided for me and leads me even when I doubted Him.

He promised the disciples,

“I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you” John 14:18

He promises those who believe

“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

Hebrews 13:5

I don’t know why you should trust God, but now is as good a time as any.

If you are asking this question today, my response is the same. I can’t tell YOU why you should trust Jesus, I can only tell you why I trust Him.

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