God is Not Your Father...Literally

Making God into a smaller version of humans is not what the intended relationship was designed for.  If we think God is going to be our genie in a bottle and make everything good in our lives, we're going to be mad at God when something bad happens. Having faith in God is not insurance against hardships. And yet we need to be careful, as our vision of God's sovereignty expands, that we do not attribute something to God in a human way the Scriptures do not. We tend to misunderstand God's powerful rally to count our trials as joy, wants to make sure we know God is not the dispenser of evil in the same way God is the giver of good.