God does care and I pray you will soon know that for sure.

Cheers - Kim

I will start listening more to that inner voice and take it from there.

I’m glad to hear you are a committed Christian and sorry if my foul language upset you but do be careful that you “Judge not lest ye also be judged”.

I don’t hear God with my ears if that is what you are asking. Moses may have heard God speak from within a burning bush but I don’t hear God that way.

I don’t know how Jesus heard God so I don’t know if I hear God the same way Jesus did either.

I hear God in my own thought processes. Sometimes He responds to me in complete sentences and other times He will bring to mind an image or a thing I have read, heard, seen, been told. Quite often it will be a line from scripture but a few times it has been a full and detailed conversation.

If I asked God how the weather was I think He would answer me with a question about why I am not saying what is really on my mind.

I am, of course, fully aware what I hear might just be my own imagination. You will have to read the words yourself and see what God says to you about them.

All I know is sometimes what I hear seems to come from outside me in some way.

I know who I am, how I think, what I know and what sort of things are likely to occur to me. Sometimes what comes to my mind doesn’t fit with anything I know about myself and those are the times I tend to think I have been hearing from either God or Satan.

Whenever it happens I check to see if it could harm anyone else before I pass it on to others because the last thing I want to do is help Satan mess anyone up.

I believe this is the explanation God gave me for why He may seem to let bad things happen but I am not saying anyone else has to believe. It’s up to God to use this or not as He see’s fit.

I do believe God talks to me. I also believe God will talk to anyone who wants to hear from Him.

Jesus died to pay for the sins that separate us from God. Anyone who has accepted that sacrifice has direct access to God himself 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year!

God is not some divine being so far out of reach He has no interest or part to play in our daily lives. He is our loving father and He walks beside us every step of our journey through life.

Why is it so hard for people to believe He would like to have conversations with us as we walk?

I hope that has answered your concerns and thanks for commenting.

I mean, yeah, I understand having divine revelation and things like that, but actually TALKING to God? Were you being metaphorical, or do you actually claim to be able to speak with God, like hear His sentences the way Jesus did?

Don’t get me wrong, I understand we all talk to God, but there’s a difference between saying “I prayed to God and He answered me with X,” or “I asked God how the weather was, and he said ‘Partly cloudly with a chance of rain.’”

“Hi, I just read “Why does God let bad things happen” and was really blessed and reassured from what you shared.

I also wanted to share something as well from your post, about when you said: “I tell you this - what I am going to do to him will make you weep tears of pity for him! Vengeance is mine and he will pay. Have no doubt about that. He only thinks he got away with what he did. They all just think they get away with sin but there is a price and they WILL have to pay it.”

Despite the rapist’s sin, God still loves him. God does not love us any less for the sins that we commit or any more for the good works that we do. He simply loves us unconditionally. Yes, God is a God of Justice and hates the sin the man was committing, yet in the midst of man’s sin God is there loving him (his creation), and I think that is the greatest testament to how great and unfathomable His love is for us.

He has already forgiven that man of his sin, but that man, like you mentioned, has blocked God out of his mind/life and until he repents and seeks God he will suffer the punishment of sin. But there is still hope for redemption, even for a man that rapes a 2 yr old girl, how amazing our Savior’s love is! 2 Corinthians 5:19 “that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, NOT COUNTING people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.”

Haha, just wanted to share that even that man’s punishment is not set in stone, that he still has the free will to turn back to God.

Also I have a question as to “why God lets bad things happen.” What about natural disasters? Or times in the Bible when He would order to kill in wars and such? Thanks and God bless! SC”

I have asked Him that question SC and I’m still waiting for an answer. God tends to tell me what He wants me to know, or thinks I need to know, and He’s given me nothing on the natural disasters etc lol.

Thank you so much for letting me know this lesson God gave me has helped you as much as it helped me and thank you for reassuring me that He DOES use this site to do His work at times.

I pray God will speed your recovery and be as much a comfort to you as He has always been to me.

Cheers - Kim

Most of the time I find “churchy” answers such as “so God can use you”, “because we live in a fallen world”, or “it makes us stronger” which are of NO help at all.

I wanted/needed an answer straight from the mouth of God…so to speak.

I wanted/needed to know from HIS perspective, HOW did You protect me, HOW did You help me, HOW do I trust You again?

Thanks to you I have finally received my answer. Now I feel like I can realign my thinking and recovery and see God/Jesus as loving me and as my Protectors rather than - just standing by and “letting it happen”.

Yeah God for restoration and trust renewed !

Yeah God for you letting Him use you ! Great work !

Big Blessings to you !

Thank you for letting me know this entry has helped you.

Like God, churches and youth groups have no control over the people who go to them and much evil has been done by people who claim to be Christian.  You might want to think about letting the leadership know what happened so they can ensure it doesn’t happen again and it would be good to try and get some support for yourself and talk to someone about what happened if you can.
I’m so sorry this happened to you and I hope, now your anger with God is gone, you will let Him comfort and heal you so you can live your life to the full and not be held back by the emotional scars.

I wish you all the best for the future and may God bless you!

In 2005 I was attacked in my own home by five young people. I am glad God permitted that to happen as I gained the most important knowledge about myself I could ever have from that experience.

I refuse to believe God permits all the bad things that happen to occur without making any effort to prevent them though.

As a parent I will stand by and watch my child stumble as he learns to walk. I will let him fall and I will pick him up and comfort him after he falls but I would never stand by and watch him fall down a cliff to his death!

I would never permit someone to attack, rape, or murder him without trying to prevent it and I simply don’t believe I am a better, more caring parent than God.

There was no glory for God to gain from permitting the little girl in my entry to be raped and murdered. There was nothing she could learn from being murdered in such a horrible fashion.

I couldn’t worship a God who would permit such a thing to happen and I don’t believe He did. I believe He tried to stop it from happening.  He is the perfect parent and no parent would stand by and let certain things happen to their child.  I don’t think God stands by and lets these things happen to his children either.  I think, as I explained in the entry, He tries to stop this sort of thing from happening.
Cheers - Kim

God promised us, no matter what, he would be here for us. Think back to when you were 3 or 4. And Mommy, or Daddy is walking beside you. Does this mean you can’t stumble? NO! But they’ll be there to pick you up after. God is beside us. And he may watch us stumble, but he’ll pick us up, too!

I am only a young teenager, but I delivered a message in my church about the subject, remember this next time you are hurt and ask this question. Also, if a time comes and God doesn’t heal someone and they slip away, don’t ask, “where was he!?” Because he is in the same place he was when his Son was killed.

God is Love!
In Peace

Thank you for telling me your thoughts on this entry - I am so glad it helped you the way it helped me but you need to know one thing.

God loves YOU every bit as much as he loved that little girl and he is with YOU in your times of trouble too.

Cheers - Kim