GOD FEELS GRIEF AND REGRET

From the book of Amos: “For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and Createth the wind, and DECLARETH UNTO MAN WHAT IS HIS THOUGHT, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.” (Amos 4:13) What are God’s thoughts? How does he feel about certain things? God does have feelings. He feels grief and regret.



We read in Genesis that prior to the flood of Noah God felt grief and regret. God does grieve when man is wicked and evil. It states he actually regretted that he had made man in the flesh. “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”(Genesis 6:5-6 and 11)



God search’s to see if there are any who seek him.“God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.” (Psalms 53:2)



The book of Jeremiah tells us that mankind sometimes discourages God to such an extent that he’d just like to go off alone somewhere and cry. God does cry.“Oh, that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they be all adulters, an assembly of treacherous men.” (Jeremiah 9:1-2) God grieves and is sometimes so discouraged that he cries.



Jesus felt grief and sorrow. "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." (Isaiah 53:3)



WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

We have learned that Our Father at times feels grief.