Genesis 4:13 And Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear!

Cain thought that God was being a bit excessive in the punishment He laid out for him. What do you think?

God has to be just and has to carry out His promises otherwise He would not be God. Why should we ever question what God does?

We should question it; but not to question whether God is right but to work out why God is doing what He is doing. What is it we have not seen or recognised?

When bad things happen in our lives we should not blame God but accept that both good and bad stuff does happen. Through everything God is trying to guide us so we should be trying to listen to Him throughout everything.

Lamentations 3:39 Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?

What right do we have to complain about things when we know we are in the wrong?

Seems like a silly question but when we are faced with punishment or chastisement in any form we always look for a way out of it. That way out may be to try and apportion blame on someone or something else instead of us!

God knows us from the inside out and will not chastise us for something we do not do or have not done!

God is faithful and just. He carries out everything in truth and with absolute justice.

Psalm 77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

How much time do you spend in a relationship just being with your partner, catching up, talking, finding out and telling? How much time do you spend in your relationship with God in the same manner?

Sometimes we are so caught up in the world we look to God and ask why He is not helping us or why we seem troubled when we look to Him.

Just maybe it is because we have not spent enough quality time with Him to unload and to reload.

God wants us to be in constant communion with Him and not to treat Him like someone on the outside. Keep God in the centre of your life!