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    Well, there's somewhat of a distinction here. You were wounded and hurt about your daughter. There's a huge difference between feeling helpless and hopeless about something so hurtful and someone who willfully lives in sin and hardens their heart over months and years. There is a point anyone can reach where they willfully harden their heart over a long period of time, and the Lord be displeased with them, especially if God has made his goodness, mercy, and other loving attributes, known to that person.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lively Stone View Post
    Well, after some pondering, my response to the question I threw out to you all is that God is never displeased with us. We still sin, yet all our sins are already forgiven, and God chooses to see us as perfect already.

    For a few years I allowed myself to be overcome with grief due to the unexplained rejection of our daughter, which also meant that we would lose contact with our grandchildren as well, and took to my bed, blew up in size and just bailed out on living. My husband would continue to go to church, and sit by my bedside and read me the Psalms while I wept. I felt so faithless, having been called by God to a higher place that that!---and gifted by Him to influence others for Him in the way of discipling.

    After I came out of that horrible, dark place, I remember sitting here at my computer, and just mourned the length of time I spent wallowing in grief, and I spoke out loud to the Lord, "Lord, I am so sorry I was so faithless! Please forgive me!" He answered me immediately, deep down inside: "I am pleased with your faith."

    I thought, "WHAT? How can that be?" I knew it wasn't from me! Again He said, "I am pleased with your faith."

    He was right there with me all the time, and all those times I envisaged myself climbing up into the lap of my Daddy, and allowing His great, warm arms to envelop me and comfort me. he knew my pain. He suffered it, too. He is highly acquainted with rejection.

    So, I am more than convinced that God is never really displeased with His children, and is always faithful while we are unfaithful, and always totally loves, where we cannot do the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lively Stone View Post
    Our cell leader threw out this question to the group this past week. Something to ponder:

    Can God be displeased with us?

    We had a few opinions aboiut this, and I have one, of course, but will offer it at a later time. What do you all think?
    Well whatever the theological answer may be or how we define his being pleased the bottom line truth is that we are at the most only a quick attitude or heart adjustment away from his being pleased with us or rather us having a sense of his pleasure with us

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lively Stone View Post
    Well, after some pondering, my response to the question I threw out to you all is that God is never displeased with us. We still sin, yet all our sins are already forgiven, and God chooses to see us as perfect already.

    For a few years I allowed myself to be overcome with grief due to the unexplained rejection of our daughter, which also meant that we would lose contact with our grandchildren as well, and took to my bed, blew up in size and just bailed out on living. My husband would continue to go to church, and sit by my bedside and read me the Psalms while I wept. I felt so faithless, having been called by God to a higher place that that!---and gifted by Him to influence others for Him in the way of discipling.

    After I came out of that horrible, dark place, I remember sitting here at my computer, and just mourned the length of time I spent wallowing in grief, and I spoke out loud to the Lord, "Lord, I am so sorry I was so faithless! Please forgive me!" He answered me immediately, deep down inside: "I am pleased with your faith."

    I thought, "WHAT? How can that be?" I knew it wasn't from me! Again He said, "I am pleased with your faith."

    He was right there with me all the time, and all those times I envisaged myself climbing up into the lap of my Daddy, and allowing His great, warm arms to envelop me and comfort me. he knew my pain. He suffered it, too. He is highly acquainted with rejection.

    So, I am more than convinced that God is never really displeased with His children, and is always faithful while we are unfaithful, and always totally loves, where we cannot do the same.
    Ahhhh.... ponder this, dear sister....

    Matthew 5:4 "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."

    You were mourning the rejection of your child. There's no way the Lord would be displeased with you. He would comfort you.

    I know when my mom passed away, I struggled... even went to my dr and got some antidepressants, got the prescription filled, but couldn't bring myself to start on them... as I was pondering about all this, I heard the Lord say, "Don't camp here. Pull up your tent pegs, fold up your tent and move on. Don't camp here." And I did. It wasn't easy... grieving is hard. The only one who wants us to stay there is the enemy as a spirit of grief will come on us and then it gets so that we can't recognize our own feelings from the whisperings of the demon. But GOD, in His mercy.... I saw myself doing what He said... I pulled up the pegs, folded the tent and moved on. There is Liberty in Him... even from grief.

    He COMFORTS those who mourn.

    Bless you.

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    We don't have to go through scriptural gymnastics or reasoning to convince ourselves of things that aren't scriptural or to makes ourselves think He's pleased with us when He really isn't displeased with us. AJ showed in that circumstance He wasn't displeased with you. The Bible clearly states He can be displeased with us. If He is, then as BAP said all we have to do is make that adjustment.

    If without faith it's impossible to please God, then we just need to live by faith. Pretty simple.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    Ahhhh.... ponder this, dear sister....

    Matthew 5:4 "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."

    You were mourning the rejection of your child. There's no way the Lord would be displeased with you. He would comfort you.

    I know when my mom passed away, I struggled... even went to my dr and got some antidepressants, got the prescription filled, but couldn't bring myself to start on them... as I was pondering about all this, I heard the Lord say, "Don't camp here. Pull up your tent pegs, fold up your tent and move on. Don't camp here." And I did. It wasn't easy... grieving is hard. The only one who wants us to stay there is the enemy as a spirit of grief will come on us and then it gets so that we can't recognize our own feelings from the whisperings of the demon. But GOD, in His mercy.... I saw myself doing what He said... I pulled up the pegs, folded the tent and moved on. There is Liberty in Him... even from grief.

    He COMFORTS those who mourn.

    Bless you.
    What a lovely post!

    I was believing I failed God by giving in to grief for so long, allowing the devil to sideline me when I could and should have been ministering to others, and not allowing the pain of rejection to influence my walk for so long....not weeks or months, but 3-4 years.

    BUT GOD! Ahhh, but God showed me that even in despair or grief, our faith to seek Him for comfort, even when small, or weak, is still a vibrant thing to Him. I am sure that we can disappoint God by our failure to keep on keeping on, but He is never displeased with His kids. He is there to lift us up, brush us off and set us on the path again, with an encouraging word and a big fresh dose of His love.

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    Just like a parent, God at times is displeased with us. But he loves us all the while he is displeased with us. His love never ceases even if we choose to leave the fold. He does however, discipline us and chasten us when he is displeased.


    Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens,
    And scourges every son whom He receives.
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    Sometimes you get it right, Brother Nikos. Well done!

    Quote Originally Posted by Nikos View Post
    Just like a parent, God at time is displeased with us. But he loves us all the while he is displeased with us. His love never ceases even if we choose to leave the fold. He does however, discipline us and chasten us when he displeased.


    Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens,
    And scourges every son whom He receives.

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    But we can displease Him. We really can. You're viewing this as someone who was wounded. A hard-hearted person who has really made a mess of their life, can in fact displease God. Do you think God is not displeased with false teachers like Carlton Pearson? Because at the end of the day, we have the ability to become THAT deceived and hard-hearted. God is very long suffering, but there comes a time when our impact with regard to leading others into deception is so devastating to others' faith, that God becomes "displeased".

    God understands our wounds...yes.. But He also can be "displeased" with our actions, yet as Nikos said, still love us.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lively Stone View Post
    What a lovely post!

    I was believing I failed God by giving in to grief for so long, allowing the devil to sideline me when I could and should have been ministering to others, and not allowing the pain of rejection to influence my walk for so long....not weeks or months, but 3-4 years.

    BUT GOD! Ahhh, but God showed me that even in despair or grief, our faith to seek Him for comfort, even when small, or weak, is still a vibrant thing to Him. I am sure that we can disappoint God by our failure to keep on keeping on, but He is never displeased with His kids. He is there to lift us up, brush us off and set us on the path again, with an encouraging word and a big fresh dose of His love.

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    Psa 103:14

    For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

    "Cast all your cares on Him for He careth for you."

    God knows we all need to be restored now and then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CatchyUsername View Post
    Sometimes you get it right, Brother Nikos. Well done!
    Why thank you Sister Catchy, however, you know I am always on the right track. And most of the time I say amen to your posts.

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