Why I sometimes feel sorry for God

How do you feel when you reach out to someone and they reject you?  How do you feel when you go to talk to someone and they don't take their eyes off the computer screen; when they talk on their cell phone the whole time you are together?  How do you feel when the people who should understand you the most understand you least?

This is why I sometimes feel sorry for God.

Who reaches out to people more than Him?

From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.  Acts 17:26-27

God orchestrated our entire lives, our origins and destinations, so that we would seek Him, reach out for Him and find Him, the only one who is not far from each and every one of us.  Who can promise to be literally with us always?  Who has gone through such pains as to desire us to find them?

How do you feel when you are treated as an interruption, as if the one you are coming to is too busy for you?  How often do we treat God like this?  And how does God respond?

He (Samson) awoke from his sleep and thought, “I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had left him. Judges 16:20

When we ignore God, demanding that he leaves us alone, He does.  Yet we are so used to desiring his absence, and acting as though He is absent, that we do not know when the Lord has left us.

I hate that I've done this to God, and to others, because I know that I hate when others do this to me.

I don't ever want to make God, or any one in His likeness, feel like this.

If I've done this to anyone who reads, I'm truly sorry, and I'll never do it again.

Dearest God, I'm sorry for when I've ignored you.

I'll never do it again.

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The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth,

and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.

So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth.

It broke his heart.

And the Lord said,

“I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth.

Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—

all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground,

and even the birds of the sky.

I am sorry I ever made them.”

But Noah found favor with the Lord. 

Genesis 6:5-8 NLT