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Who do you think you are to talk back to God like that? Can an object that was made say to its maker, “Why did you make me like this?”

Romans 9:20

I s there something that used to be yours but isn’t anymore? Has something been taken away, gotten lost, or left you? It helps to remember that whatever you’ve lost has just been returned to where it came from. Don’t worry about losing what you think you own, because you don’t own anything in the usual sense of the word. Everything belongs to God, and he can do with it as he sees fit. Nothing owned by Job belonged to Job, and nothing belongs to you.

So instead of feeling angry or hurt because of what has been taken from you, just tell yourself that it has been returned to God to care for and redistribute or protect. Don’t be angry with the one who has taken it from you, either. It’s not your job to decide who God uses for what purpose. Instead, be like a traveler who rents a room in a hotel and takes care of it while she stays there but gives it back to the owner when she leaves. When you start to think like this, you don’t have to live in fear of loss, and you won’t be ruined when you lose something or someone that you love. There is great freedom in knowing and believing that God has it all under control and that he gives and he takes away. Ultimately, the God Girl knows that God’s ways are not her ways and that if he decides that something or someone she loves must go, then she has no need to complain because time will prove that his will is perfect. When you lose what you love, it can be easy to talk back to God, to accuse him of not caring for you. And that’s what you do when you let yourself become a wreck because of loss. Certainly losing what you love hurts, but the God Girl isn’t destroyed by the loss because of her undying trust in the goodness of the God who decides her destiny.