Why Does God Not Care About Me? | askTheocast

The Question of God’s Care in a Suffering World

Hi, I'm Jon, and I'm going to be answering the question, why does God not care about me? I know many would think that's a weird question, but it's a legitimate question these days. People wonder if God has the power to remove cancer, to save somebody, to prevent them from harm, to feed them, to provide a home for them, provide a job, and yet He doesn't.

God has all power, and yet He doesn't do it. Why is that a God that I think is concerned about me or cares about me? All these promises in Scripture that God can and will provide, and yet He doesn't. I know there are people who struggle, who won't publicly say it out loud, but would say that they don't like God.

They hate God. A God who can provide and protect and heal and doesn't seems like a tyrant. Why would He do that? Why would He put requirements on people? If they perform well, then God will give them something.

They have to earn it first. They have to earn that which He could freely give. There's nothing preventing God from healing this world. There's nothing preventing God from removing all pain and sorrow, and yet He doesn't.

That's a struggle. We all feel that tension. I know there are many who don't like God. They play the game, they go to church, they sing the songs, but deep down inside, they're angry, they're upset, they don't feel love and compassion coming from their Father.

The Curse of Sin and the Limits of This Present World

This is because you have been lied to. This is because you've been told something about the Bible that is just not true. God never promised that He would remove death and sin and sickness and suffering and crime.

Now, this earth is cursed. It's been cursed since Genesis 3. It's been underneath this groaning and painful sorrow. People have been suffering because of not God's absence, but because of sin. Just as much as you hate crime and cancer and death, so does God.

The result of everything that we suffer in this world is the result of sin. What God has promised and what God has been faithful to His promise is to rescue us from the very cause of all of this pain and suffering, which is our sin, and to rescue us from this world to go live in the new world, the redeemed world, the restored world where there is no pain, there is no suffering, there is no crying, there is no fear and anxiety, but there's only joy, there's only love, there's only beauty and glory and worship.

The Gospel Hope of Christ’s Return and the Church’s Burden-Bearing

The confusion and the reason why most people hate God, if they're willing to admit it, is that they assumed God would promise if they did the right things and said the right things, then God would help them.

We live in a cursed world full of sin. Nothing in this world will be restored until Christ comes back. The hope that God has given to us as His adopted children is the gospel and His community, His church.

The church is supposed to carry each other, to bear each other's burdens until we finally go home and God restores all things. The greatest joy and hope we can have now is to look to the love of Christ, His promises that He will save us, that He will redeem us, and then we take that love and we love each other and we encourage each other and we strengthen each other while we wait our homecoming.

Resurrection Hope and Waiting for the Restoration of All Things

Most people are frustrated with life because somehow they're missing out and it's God's fault. Somehow they could have more, but God's preventing it. Sin is what's robbing us. The sin-stricken world, our bodies, the infection of sin, it is going to destroy us to the point we will die.

When we rise again in our resurrection, we'll have new bodies in a new home with our King. That's where our hope is. While we wait, we offer people love and we offer to carry their burdens until Christ returns.

That is the promise of Scripture. If anyone ever tells you that it's God's design or desire to abolish anything in this world until He comes back, it's just not what God has ever promised. Look to Christ.

Wait for His return. That is His promise. I hope that encourages you.