Does god really help us at all?

Question

i have heard some christens saying that if your a good person god will reward you. but how has he helped any of us? thousands starve overseas, some die in accidents, children die of diseases etc... how has god helped any of these people? im fourteen, i study hard, i am kind and i have defended many people;i also have anxiety, social problems and self confidence issues, i was bullied and depressed for two years in primary school, another year in my first year of high school, how has god helped me? im lucky to have what i have yes but still. others have must less and still he does nothing. has god given up on us? or is their something im missing in all this?
(please be nice people, im confused about this as it is)

Answer 1

Well, God really helps sometimes. And I have seen instances in life. But when I needed his help the most, he did not yet provide help. When I was misunderstood to be a cheat and sleazy person, he did not provide any help, and my heart hurts even now like its on fire, but what can I do?



You know the song by "The Strokes", the song titled "Ask me anything", I interpret the song in a different way. When someone has experienced so much pain, and asks for help and gets nothing at all, then after sometime he becomes mute, his mouth gets sealed and he becomes a dead body, he can no more ask for help, he has nothing else to say, just becomes sort of mad man. This might be the story of my life.



But mate on the long run you will find out that whatever happened has happened for good. Until then endure. But if you keep on pressing god to help and also try your heart out then God will help you, and if he still doesn't then we'll call Batman :-)



I was bullied in my school too, you can't run away from bullies, take pleasure in getting hit and never run away, if he hits you 10 times then you can at least blow one punch on his face. But dont give up, face it.

Answer 2

Such a difficult question, and one that can have such emotion filled answers. I've come to the point in my life that I have to believe in something- why not that "something" be God? Living a moral, just life is not always easy. There are many temptations in the world- many people, places, and things that want to lead us anywhere but to the truth. When we question if God is there, if He cares about us, or if He will ever help us; this is when I've found God is the closest. I trust that ppl will do whatever they will do- but I trust even more that God will (and does) reward us for our obedience.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Yes God helps all of us. Under the Law of Attraction, we get what we believe and think about most often, and so many of us block out Divine help and assistance by fearful thoughts or mistrust. In order to receive God's help (which is very powerful indeed) we need to fully believe that he is helping us, guiding us, meeting our needs and moving in our lives; then he is able to help in our lives I impeded.



As we keep on believing this, more and more Divine help will come through for us. Miracles and fortuitous events, enabling us to move forwards in life and improve. The more we believe, the deeper the belief becomes and the more help we receive, and it will be wholly relevant to our own personal situations. We just have to believe first of all and then God comes through.

Answer 5

Religion is about trusting and believing. Not knowing.



I think almost everybody have to go through what you are going through right now.

Your questions like: Is god really there? What kind of god is that? How can god be good if my life is bad? etc. etc.



It really depends on you. What do YOU think. How do YOU feel about it? Do YOU believe in god or not?

And the reason why I am making YOU so big is because it doesn't matter what others believe, they have made their own decisions and believe what they want to believe, now it's your time to decided what you want and what you think. Religion only works if we let each other have different opinions and respect each other.



When I got these questions I thought like:

If god really exist, and if he is really good, why is he making me go through all this sad stuff in live?



What I came up with, but doesn't have to be your believe or anything, just an idea of what works for me in every day life, is this:



There is a god. A good one. One we don't have to fear. He puts us on this earth with a mission. A place we are to end up on. He puts us in different positions, different beginnings. But we all have our destination. He gives us family, chances and troubles. Things we have to learn how to use and make something good out of. He doesn't help you, that's why he gave you family. But once you screw up badly, he is there to support you and point you to your right path. Your path to your destination. For me, he doesn't appear in your dreams or anything, he appears to me in good work and love for the world. When everything is dark and gray, I see god as the little light spot that helps me get through the dark times and into better times.



That is how it is to me, now it's your chance to find god for yourself. And I mean, if you don't believe in god, then you just don't, and that is perfectly fine. Just stand with yourself and everything will be good :)

Answer 6

The time for the end of suffering is not now as the bible clearly states but when he creates the new heaven and earth. You listed the pain but us Christians say he helps us in everything we do. Pray with a sincere heart and believe.

Answer 7

you are young but your own soul fragment is ageless and timeless so try to detach from bad feelings etc and the folly of life is attachment to things in general which ultimately have no intrinsic value. we are here to do God's works as the soul within wishes us the body to do. hard to say for a wee person but its time to change the world and only the young in heart can do it.

Amen and Om Shantih and Sai Ram.

Answer 8

At James 4:8 it says: "Draw close to God and he will draw close to you." To do this, we must build a relationship with God by reading the bible and by praying to him with all our heart.



At Isaiah 48:17,18 it says:"I, Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit yourself, the One causing you to tread in the way in which you should walk. If you pay attention to my commands

then your peace would become just like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea"



Absolute peace in today's world is not possible because at Ecclesiastes 8:9 it tells us that "Man has dominated man to his injury." There are a lot of bad things going on in the world today but it is not God's fault. Bible prophecy foretold the bad conditions we see in the world today. At Second Timothy 3:1-5 it says: "But know this that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemer, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power and from these turn away".



Believe me, God sees the suffering of mankind but he is not the cause of our suffering. At James

1:13 it says,"When under trial, let no one say: "I am being tried by God." For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone. Fortunately, God will not allow these bad world conditions to go on forever. At Second Peter 3:13 it says: "But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise and in these righteousness is to dwell." In

this new world, all the things that depress us like famine, violence, war, natural disasters, etc...

will no longer exist because everyone will be a righteous person who serves God wholeheartedly.

To some, it may seem that God is taking too long to do something about the bad conditions we see today. Well, at Second Peter 3:9 it says: "Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise as some people consider slowness but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance."



We don't know when God will step in and do something but Acts 17:31 makes this promise: "He has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead." So we must serve God now as best we can and wait for him to act...because he will soon act.

Answer 9

He gave us free will when he created us! The downside of Free Will is that we're on our own! It's in the afterlife we're rewarded for our deeds and achivements.