God Will Not Rescue You

... Because He Already Has

God is our perfect creator who unconditionally loves us, He is not our rescuer. He already rescued us, better yet under no circumstances were we going to be true victims uncertain if he would come and save us. For God created us and gave his life for us despite unfaithfulness. If our God who is an all-perfect, powerful, and knowing God? Why would he have to victimize himself to clean up our mess? Or be the hero and seek our favor? God could not have been under any obligation or pressure to rescue us. God could have resolved everything with a mere thought. So, why did He die on the cross? It was the ultimate expression of love, justice, and wisdom—the act of an all-loving, all-knowing, and perfectly just God. God is not a fool, victim, or hero desiring power or praise. If he suffers for us it is in deep love, compassion, and desire for intimate connection with us.
His creation was never a threat to him and it was not possible for our perfect and powerful God to fail. Can we truly understand right now why God did what he did? No, but with what we do know about God can help us understand Him better.
God is all loving, all just, all powerful, all knowing, and all trusting. If we can trust this fact we have nothing to fear. Got doesn't make mistakes, hate us, or play unfair. We don't need luck or guessing to please God but trust and confidence.
Victims are people who wallow in their suffering, longing for a rescuer, longing for someone to take away their pain—and essentially waiting on an intervention. It’s not that God doesn’t care about our pain, but he cares about us. He wants our souls. Pain is temporary, but we are eternal. He experienced pain himself by dying on the cross, and did he take it away from himself or let it happen? Didn’t he stop his friends from rescuing him from his pain? If God were merely a rescuer, he would save us from our pain and even save us from hell, but he does not.
God the Father didn’t rescue or respond to Jesus’s cry for help on the cross. Yes, he was reciting the psalm; however, before in the Garden of Gethsemane he asked his Father to let this “cup pass” (referring to his death) but it did not. God the Father also didn’t rescue Jesus from suffering in the desert but remember that the devil tried tempting him with riches and food to satisfy his hunger. That temptation was to be rescued.
We pray for healing, but God does not seem to respond. We ask for life's pain and loneliness to go away, but it still lingers. The people Jesus healed would still suffer and die and eventually get sick again. So, maybe he is not supposed to rescue.
Remember that we must die to go to heaven, and our bodies must perish. In the desert, the devil tempted Jesus by turning the stones into bread. To save and rescue him from his suffering. But this would take away what is more important—the opportunity to grow and exercise free will. Free will can be exercised, especially when something is at stake and on the line when you don’t have a decision or intervention made for you. If God gave us free will to use, he will not take away the genuine practice of it. We are meant to discern, decipher, and decide. God will not intervene. There is often no right or wrong decision, even when there is sin. For sin is not a sin to the one that doesn’t understand the sin. Sin is either obvious or it is not. Sin has to be committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent—catechism pg 507. Every human person is a sinner and starts with the original sin, giving us the freedom to be imperfect since we start that way. Sinning wouldn’t be the wrong choice, but a bad choice. God forgives you with ease. Not having agency and wielding it would be the wrong choice. We need to lead ourselves to confess our sins. Avoiding evil doesn’t make you good. Indeed, God does not need us to perform for his sake. You will see that interfering with our lives is interfering with our growth.

The caged animal is so used to it’s cage that it feels something is wrong when it has been set free. Freedom seems like it can come at a cost. As a slave in a cage, the master makes all the decisions for it. But as a free animal, it must make its own decisions and get its shelter and food. It can feel easier to be the slave, for the slave has less responsibility. God is not the hovering boss but the trusting father, letting his sons leave the nest to follow their unique calling. If God intervened in this freedom and decision-making, he knows it would be less powerful and not genuine. God is saying to us to decide whatever we think best and to trust the heart he has given us. The only wrong decision is not deciding. (For it is the lukewarm that he will spit out). Revelation 3:16
We typically ask for Jesus to rescue us by taking away our suffering, changing our lives, the people we love or hate’s lives, external events, and our health. We even ask him to rescue us from our laziness and weakness. We plead with him to take away our struggle with sin and addiction. We want to be stronger, but the motivation to pray is for it to become easier. This is a prayer for relief and not guidance. God doesn’t withhold grace or bargain with us in prayer, but grace is already available. God won’t give you strength but guide you in changing your heart. You must change your heart, and God does not do it for you, for it will be ingenuine. God’s love is pure and detached. He must have feelings of unbearable sympathy; however, he does not intervene to disempower us. He demands our hearts, not for his gain but for our own.
God is not a genie, vending machine, or butler. God is not obligated to serve us in the way we expected. The service we typically expect will keep us immature, but by being a guide, He serves us in a much greater way.

He is the perfect guide that gives us space and time to direct our lives. He is always there and never impatient. What's the point of free will if he tells us precisely what to do, intervene, and rescue us? Pain from uncertainty and life sucks, of course, but your value is found in your freedom and being created and not in health or contentment.