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One of my recent podcasts is titled, Is God Really Testing You? Sometimes instead of saying God is testing them, people say that God brings bad things to you in order to bring you something good. Similar phrases include, “God has a reason, ” and, “everything is just meant to be.”
Phrases like that indicate that whatever difficulty presents itself, it is something that came from God. That kind of thinking doesn’t agree with the Bible. I John 1:5 says, “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” In that same epistle it says, “God is love.” It says in Chapter 1 of the book of James, that God cannot be tempted with evil and neither does He tempt any person.
I certainly believe God can close one door and open another door. You can see that in the Scriptures many times. I’ve seen that happen in my life. And I must admit that on a few occasions, I ignored a closed door, and the results were not very pleasant.
But on the other hand, God does not