Is God Mad At Me?

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Today I talked on the topic of, “Is God mad at me?” I hit home on God’s grace, forgiveness, the love of God, the enemy, a little about my old eating disorder, and salvation.

This message is for the ones that are sincerely wrestling with the question of, “Is God mad at me?” This video is especially for the ones that are too scared to talk with the Lord because they think He is angry at them. I am confident by the time you get through this video, you will be assured that the Lord loves you unconditionally and He is not mad at you. If there is sin in your life, it is true that He does not like that, but YOU, oh HE LOVES YOU! He truly does want to talk to you and He will do so with gentleness and compassion! Do not let shame keep you away my sweet ones. 🩶

God’s Grace

Here is the Greek definition of grace thanks to the Blue Letter Bible:

• grace

  • that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness: grace of speech

• good will, loving-kindness, favour

  • of the merciful kindness by which God, exerting his holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of the Christian virtues

• what is due to grace

  • the spiritual condition of one governed by the power of divine grace

  • the token or proof of grace, benefit

    • a gift of grace

    • benefit, bounty

• thanks, (for benefits, services, favours), recompense, reward

Verses on Love

God’s love is unfailing—The following verse is jam-packed with truth, and how the author describes God’s love is fascinating: “But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and rich in unfailing love. You did not abandon them.” (Nehemiah 9:17b NLT, emphasis mine)

*Please know, I pulled the greek definition of the word grace for this bible verse. This verse was originally written in Hebrew.

Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ—Here is Paul explaining the Lord’s love and how nothing can separate us from the love Jesus has for us:

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35–39)

Jesus’s love is so big that it passes knowledge—Here, Paul bows down to the Father, and it appears that he is praying (as well as stating) for people to understand the love of the Lord: For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:14–19, emphasis mine)

“Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him” (2 Corinthians 2:8). How much more will Jesus reaffirm His love to you?

“And above all things have fervent love for one another” (1 Peter 4:8a). How much more does God have fervent love for us?

“A friend loves at all times” (Proverbs 17:17a). How much more will Jesus love at all times?

“Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness” (Galatians 6:1a). God is the most spiritual being. How much more will He restore you with gentleness?

Other Verses

Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable. Isaiah 40:28

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10

For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 1 John 3:20

Prodigal Son – Luke 15:11-32

“Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:8

That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:9-10

But Ashley, what do I do when I see God’s hate and anger in the Bible?

When we see the Lord’s anger and hate in the Bible, we want to know why it is there. Understanding context is very important. Also, we need to know that the Lord’s anger is not the same as our hate and anger.

We can’t compare our rage and animosity and expect them to be what God feels when He uses fury and abhorrence in the Word of God. The Lord has godly and righteous anger and hate, all while remaining a perfect and loving heavenly Father.

I once heard a teacher of the Word say when talking about the judgment of Jesus, “He is only removing what hinders love.” That statement marked me.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. (1 Corinthians 13:11–12)

There is a lot in this Scripture, but I want to highlight the part where it says we only know in part. The times that we are quickly reading through a story or scenario in the Bible and we see the Lord’s wrath, we can easily jump to, “Wow, the Lord seems really harsh here.” However, we only know in part. We do not know the complete and full story. Even after studying and doing research with certain situations of the Bible where we see His anger and hate, we still only understand to a degree. God’s leadership, judgment, and Fatherhood is always perfect. We only know in part, but God knows “in all” and sees all. We need to trust that He knows what He is doing (even when we read the tough Scriptures).

Finally, in the video I mentioned God’s wrath in the Old Testament, but we do see it in the New Testament too. Especially in the book of Revelation. Again, context, context, context. Understanding the whole narrative of the Word of God and the Lord’s character will help us to comprehend why we see the Lord’s wrath from time to time in the Bible.

Work Cited:

“G5485 - charis - Strong’s Greek Lexicon (KJV).” Blue Letter Bible. Web. 28 May, 2026. <https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g5485/kjv/tr/0-1/>.

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture references in this article are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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