"God gave my parents this trial to teach them better financial management and responsibility."
How it sounds in your head: Maybe your parents were careless with money and God is correcting them through hardship. Maybe they should have saved more, budgeted better, been wiser. This suffering has a purpose—to make them learn. God's a good teacher even when His lessons hurt.
"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 10:10Religious teaching that makes God the author of suffering and hardship, contradicting His nature as a good Father.
She's been taught that God uses trials to teach lessons, and financial struggle seems like an obvious curriculum for financial wisdom. It gives meaning to pain instead of admitting the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
After Job's suffering, God gave him TWICE as much as he had before—14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 oxen, 1,000 donkeys. God's response to Job's loss wasn't 'learn from this' but DOUBLE RESTORATION.
I REFUSE the lie that God authored my family's financial hardship to teach us lessons. IT IS WRITTEN that the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy but Jesus came to give ABUNDANT LIFE. God is not withholding to teach; He's a good Father running toward us with provision. IT IS WRITTEN in 3 John 1:2 that He wishes above all things that we prosper and be in health. I declare that my family's financial struggle is NOT God's curriculum—it's the enemy's attack that is being BROKEN right now. The BARAK blessing is flowing to my household because of covenant, not because we learned some lesson.
Your Father is not teaching through poverty—He's the God who gave Job DOUBLE after his trial, not a lesson plan. He's running toward your family with restoration, not waiting for you to graduate from hardship university.