Does God ever remove his love from you?

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I ask this because he allowed pharaoh to harden his heart; does he do that with us sometimes?

Is this what some saints called darkness or is this mortal sin or something else?
 
Romans 8:38-39

“38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Remember that God is good & He loves you no matter what.

Please speak with your pastor about these concerns of yours.
 
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Nelka said:
I ask this because he allowed pharaoh to harden his heart; does he do that with us sometimes?

Is this what some saints called darkness or is this mortal sin or something else?
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God never abandons us. Only we can abandon him.
 
Isnt it called Dark Night of the Soul or something like that?
 
To be able to love we need free will or we would be like robots programmed to say or do something. God can never stop loving us as He is love. Human beings can choose to love or not love.
 
The pharoah deliberately hardened his own heart even after he saw all of the wonders that Moses did. God wants everyone to go to Heaven. However He will not force you to go to Heaven.
 
We may not always possess the human experience of God’s love, but it is always present, by definition.
Desolation can further a person in loving God, by removing experiences of sweetness that we might be grasping at and perhaps idolizing.

(Christ on the cross…is he having the human experience of God’s love? Something to ponder)
 
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Add to this Isaiah 49:

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me;

my Lord has forgotten me.”i

Can a mother forget her infant,

be without tenderness for the child of her womb?

Even should she forget,

I will never forget you.j

See, upon the palms of my hands I have engraved you;*

your walls are ever before me.
 
That is when the spiritual training wheels come off, the consolations are withdrawn to strengthen our Faith.
 
“Give thanks to the lord for he is good. His love endures forever.”

A search of those three (bolded) words reveals 25 times where scripture assures us that God never removes His love from us.

It is we who remove ourselves from Him. He is always ready to take us back.

Sin is when we turn our backs on God; turn towards Him again, He is right there where we left Him, open arms, loving us with “an everlasting love.”
 
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Nelka said:
I ask this because he allowed pharaoh to harden his heart; does he do that with us sometimes?

Is this what some saints called darkness or is this mortal sin or something else?
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God gives actual grace even before a person is made just through cooperation, and also knows which persons will and will not be justified in the end. God can implement His providence as seen most beneficial to all.
 
All will ultimately be reconciled because of the sacrifice that was made by Jesus on the cross. Colossians 1:19-20
 
You said it yourself: G-d ALLOWED Pharaoh to harden his heart; G-d did not cause the pharaoh to do this but rather respected Pharaoh’s free will to act on his baser instincts.
 
My prayers for you Nelka, knowing from many past posts that you have carried a lot of heartbreak and loss for a long time.
 
Thanks, for reminding bus , I was feeling today completely abandoned and far from His love,
 
Dear Nelka – God IS Love. God NEVER abandons us, no matter how evil we might freely choose, even to tell God we do not love God. When Lucifer, the most beautiful and knowledgeable chose to become evil, God did not – could not – stop Loving Lucifer (Satan). It was Lucifer (Satan) who freely chose to abandon God. God DID, PERMIT, the consequences that Satan chose to come upon him.
If God continues to Love fallen Lucifer (Satan) ?? what is to finally happen? Simple answer? I do not know.
There is one highly respected theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar, who offers something to think about and to pray about. He writes about Jesus, after His Death and before His Resurrection, Jesus on Holy Saturday. We find in the Nicene Creed, although omitted in the Nicene-Constantinople Creed> “…He Suffered and Died, descended into hell…” I am aware of Limbo of Patriarchs, Limbo of Infants, but I believe Balthasar is to pointing us toward something more.
Let us in Prayer and in the Holy Spirit consider that Jesus united Himself – in God’s never ending Love – with the damned. Yes, with the damned, as God’s Love united God with us all in the Incarnation. Possible? Who is to say no?
Would the damned in some way need to repent? Yes. Consider that God’s infallibly efficacious Grace could, working within the creature’s intellect and free will, cause the free will to freely choose repentance and be justified. God never forces any creature.
I, myself, do choose to believe this development of Balthasar’s pointing to a possible Working of God in Jesus in the hell of the damned. Possible? Yes. Who is to say no?
 
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