* Does God take pleasure in oppressing us?

* Does He affirm the plans of the wicked?

* Does He create only to destroy?

* Is He like a human in that He looks for faults, even though He knows one is innocent?

God is not changing in the way He sees after us because He cannot change. His immutability will not allow Him to change. His will is for us to change to be the saints He created us to be. How does God want us to think? Spiritually! Spiritual values change the way we think and it structures our moods and behaviors. “Let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes,” Ephesians 4:23. God’s unchanging truth (the Word) is to structure our minds to think spiritually to have life and peace. To set your mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace. Without the Holy Spirit, there is no shifting in our thinking from negative thoughts to positive thoughts. This is why we need the Holy Spirit to help us. “A promise I give to you as My disciples as you experience and see the establishment of an earthly kingdom and the Roman Empire collapses and is overthrown as I build My Kingdom to save this world from sin. All of this is because of the word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit—for all that, love my words and keep it. For the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me. All men have heard my words, for it has been proclaimed in the whole world, and yet not everyone is receptive to it. How is it that you will manifest Yourself unto us through the Holy Spirit and not unto? My deepest revelation is for those who love and obey my Father’s word. It is for the children of obedience not the children of disobedience. So the promise that I have for you is the Holy Spirit/the Comforter, whom the Father will send in My name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you,” John 14:22-26.  This promise ensures the validity of Jesus’ life and teachings. We can be confident that the Holy Spirit will help us.

So where does this leave us?

We have a choice. We can believe in God and His word, knowing that He is equipping us to produce a life that is pleasing in His sight for good works—and see His divine power through the Holy Spirit as it helps us to understand the things we might never understand, things we can’t reconcile in our humanness.

But with the divine power of the Holy Spirit releasing understanding, we are prepared and equipped to effectively complete the assignment with every aspect of God’s will for our lives.

“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groaning to deep for words,” Romans 8:26.