Will God save me from troubles of my own making?

Will God save me from the troubles of my own making? For instance, if you lie out of fear or for whatever reason and it comes back to try to haunt you, will God save you?

Short answer: Yes, beloved- when your trust is utterly in Jesus Christ our Wisdom from God. Proverbs 28:26 tells us:

"Self-confident know-it-alls will prove to be fools. But when you lean on the wisdom from above, you will have a way to escape the troubles of your own making."

This is a promise of God to all who believe in Jesus Christ- all who put absolutely no (self) confidence in what we think we can do to save ourselves from our sins and even troubles of our own making but trust utterly in our Saviour Jesus Christ as our Righteousness and Strength. There is no “yes and no" or “maybe" in God's promises to His children in Christ, whatever your circumstances are. 2 Corinthians 1:17-20 tells us:

“17 Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No? 18 But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. 20 For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.”

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Detailed answer:

Some among us have found ourselves asking ourselves this question- even expecting that God would pour out His wrath on us because we went into that trouble with eyes wide open thanks to antichrist pastors who peddle lies such as God reversing His blessing in the life of His children who are "ungrateful." This came from the pastor of a megachurch that I used to attend. Beloved, let's take our blessed brains to church. God is to us "Abba, Father." He did not send His Son to condemn the world but to save-- even salvation from sins such as being ungrateful and whatever--

"He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us His very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds." Titus 2:14.

Beloved of God, see our heavenly Father's love for you. God's ways and thoughts are higher than man's. His way of saving us is illogical/foolishness to human reasoning which is what antichrist pastors exploit to deceive the flock--

"For the message of the cross is foolishness [absurd and illogical] to those who are perishing and spiritually dead [because they reject it], but to us who are being saved [by God’s grace] it is [the manifestation of] the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18.

We see in His Word to you and I who utterly depend on Christ as our Righteousness and Strength His Way of saving us from even troubles of our own making in the matter concerning Isaac in Genesis 26 where-- "...Isaac moved to Gerar, where Abimelech, king of the Philistines, lived"-- because there was a famine at his previous location. The following happened while Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

"7 When the men who lived there asked Isaac about his wife, Rebekah, he said, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “They will kill me to get her, because she is so beautiful.” 8 But some time later, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out his window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah.

9 Immediately, Abimelech called for Isaac and exclaimed, “She is obviously your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?”

“Because I was afraid someone would kill me to get her from me,” Isaac replied.

10 “How could you do this to us?” Abimelech exclaimed. “One of my people might easily have taken your wife and slept with her, and you would have made us guilty of great sin.”

11 Then Abimelech issued a public proclamation: “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death!”"

Understand that the above is a faith picture written for us: the Old Testament is all about our Lord Jesus Christ and our Salvation in Him as we see in Luke 24 where Christ teaches us how to read the Scriptures. Our "Philistines" today are not physical enemies like those of Israel. They are those earthly ills that make one so fearful that he resorts to illegal/human effort-driven means to keep himself safe from trouble. E.g. people padding budgets (stealing) because of  fear of lack/financial poverty or lying about your age or bank statement because you feel that it makes some prospects more feasible.  Lack and the possibility of losing good prospects are examples of "Philistines" that put fear in many today and cause them to lie and commit all sorts of sins.

Someone else lied about his wife for the same reason as Isaac and to Abimelech in the same Gerar: Abraham- Isaac's father! See Genesis 20--

"1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah."

Abraham too lied about his wife to save his own neck. His own was even twice: once to a Pharaoh in Egypt before the Lord changed his name and Sarai’s (Genesis 12) and the Lord plagued Pharaoh's house because of Sarai; another time to Abimelech. Abimelech is a title, like "Pharaoh," so it could be the same guy that Abraham and Isaac lied to, or different guys.

Now God hates sin— because it destroys the world that God so loved. Lying is a sin. Many religious folk in the church today would say to Abraham had they been present at the time:

"Abraham, where is your faith?" or “Abraham, why did you have to sleep with Hagar? I thought you believed God?” or

“Abraham, you call yourself a child of God yet you lie and let your own wife be taken into another man's harem. You are in a state of sin! You are not justified before God."

But in all of that time, not once is it recorded that the Lord God rebuked or condemned Abraham for his failings. In fact, in the case of his lie to Abimelech of Gerar, smack in the middle of this lie, God referred to Abraham as a “prophet" who would pray for Abimelech so that Abimelech would not die. And that is exactly what happened. All of this is written in Genesis 20. Now according to some pulpit manning pastors today, Abraham's lie should cause God to revoke His promise to Abraham or at least make him suffer. But beloved, the very next chapter - Genesis 21 - opens thus: 

"1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him."

At the set time. God did not delay or revoke Abraham’s blessing because of his weakness. He helped Abraham.

And what did God do to Isaac who outrightly lied about Rebekah’s status to save his own neck like his dad and put her at risk of being taken away to join another man's harem? See this again and the “much more” that the LORD blessed him with in Genesis 26:11 and the verses that follow—

"“So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.” Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him. The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭26:11-14‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Not quite the reaction that many “men of God” tell us to expect for our weaknesses that Christ our Perfect Strength came to save us from. Beloved, God made the Way of escape from the lie for Isaac, PROSPERED him, giving Isaac reason to trust Him more, as He does for His children in Christ today.  See this in 1 Corinthians 10--

"12 So beware if you think it could never happen to you, lest your pride becomes your downfall. 13 We all experience times of testing, which is normal for every human being. But God will be faithful to you. He will screen and filter the severity, nature, and timing of every test or trial you face so that you can bear it. And each test is an opportunity to trust Him more, for along with every trial God has provided for you a way of escape that will bring you out of it victoriously.""

Beloved, it is the goodness of God that leads to repentance, not threats of punishment for sins. Plus, if God were not filtering and screening, we would all be immersed in horrid lies, sins and Job-type calamities right now. There is no good in man of himself. But there is something about the arm of flesh (human effort at obedience) that wants to be relevant in the story of our salvation. That something is Pride. God's word says human effort (the arm of flesh) will fail, is powerless and cannot: Romans 7:18-

"For I know that nothing good lives within the flesh of my fallen humanity. The longings to do what is right are within me, but will-power is not enough to accomplish it."

But men’s Pride in the arm of flesh (human effort) that will fail challenges God’s word and says: 

"No, I can. God must be wrong. I still have some good in me. I can keep the law and live a godly life so that God can bless me.”

Reminds one of Peter who arrogantly thought that his Maker was wrong about his then upcoming denials. Beloved, Christ says--

"There is none good but God."

That doctrine of "trying to be good (like God)" by human effort which antichrist pastors promote as morality, it challenges Jesus Christ our Wisdom from God (God's Word) and partially or totally excludes Him (our Wisdom from God) from the equation of salvation. It is pompous pride and perverse speech- to trust in human effort/the flesh in which dwells no good thing. Beloved, we enjoy an abundance of Wisdom when we begin to hate that false doctrine that promotes confidence in self for even routine activities such as blinking or tying our shoelace. See Proverbs 8:13--

"Wisdom pours into you when you begin to hate every form of evil in your life, for that’s what worship and fearing God is all about. Then you will discover that your pompous pride and perverse speech are the very ways of wickedness that I hate!”

To digress a bit, we tend to interpret "evil" in terms of deeds and actions. But it is translated from the Hebrew word "ra" which has as its primary definitions --

"bad, disagreeable, malignant, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery)"

For example, Hebrews 10:22 says:

"let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water."

Often “evil conscience” is interpreted as a conscience that will not bat an eyelid at slaughtering an infant for fun. In reality, it is a conscience that toils or labors (is in misery) under guilt for sins that Christ died to take away. See this reflected in the Good News Translation--

"So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water."

The secondary application of "evil" which relates to ethical behaviour is the result of having an evil/guilty conscience- being under law and thus striving to keep the law in order to be free from guilt via useless human effort/arm of flesh. No Christ saving here. The law which many are trying to keep in order to be godly is designed to cause sin to increase—

“The law was given that sin might increase...” Romans 5:20.

Beloved, God sees that false doctrine of "now that you are born-again, at least a person must try to be godly/good (aka be like God) and do good works" which antichrist pastors peddle as Christianity as nothing but arrogance, superiority and pride. His word tells us in Proverbs 21:4-- 

"Arrogance, superiority, and pride are the fruits of wickedness and the true definition of sin."

It is impossible for the one whose works and attempts at being good are driven by the flesh/human effort to deceive themselves in this matter: 

if we knew and believed that it is Christ in us doing the works and godly living and not our own might and power, it would be difficult for us to point accusing fingers at others who are still struggling with sin and threaten them with judgment if they don't change. Rather, we would see how helpless man is to overcome sins and produce good works and like Moses who pointed the suffering Israelites to the bronze serpent, point such to Christ who saves from sins and transforms the sinner who truly believes to live right and bear much fruit, as it is written of Him in Titus 2:14--

"He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us His very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds."

How secure in God's love Isaac must have been at the end of his lie- realising that he did not even have to lie to begin with because the Lord was with him, and knowing/believing that God would save him in his weaknesses. Isaac received MERCY (escape from the punishment for his sin that he deserved) and found GRACE (undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour) in God's sight- as you will beloved--- when you forsake that arrogance, superiority and pride that makes man believe that he has some good in himself to keep even a jot of the law or produce an iota of good by himself, and trust in Christ as your utter Righteousness and Strength.  See Hebrews 4:14–16:

“Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”

Notice receive mercy and find grace…? 

• We receive Mercy when we escape the punishment that we very much deserve.

• We find Grace when we get the good things that we most certainly do not deserve. 

For all of man's efforts at being sins-free and good, death (preceded by earthly ills) is what all deserved. But beloved, because of God's love expressed in His sacrifice of His own Son for our salvation from sin and death, we are accepted in Christ (the Beloved) and not useless works of the law that only serve as a barrier to enjoying His salvation. We who believe can “draw near to the throne of grace" to receive mercy and find grace in abundance in Christ.

Today, when we sin or mess things up, Jesus Christ our Great High Priest is able to sympathise with our weaknesses and deliver us from them all. He knows all of our weaknesses. He knows we are helpless to save ourselves from them. In fact, see who He came to save in Romans 5:6--

"For when the time was right, the Anointed One came and died to demonstrate His love for sinners who were entirely helpless, weak, and powerless to save themselves."

In reality, “entirely helpless” encompasses everyone. But like Peter, many are still confident in the flesh/human effort and are yet to see that God's mercy is the skeleton that is propping man up from devolving into his base nature of sins and Job-type calamities. Beloved of God, if this is you, by God's Grace, change your mind and experience God's peace that surpasses all understanding. 

Beloved, Christ's strength is made perfect in weakness; our weakness. He is telling us in His word today that the only reason why we all are not wallowing in heinous sins and Job-type calamities is His mercy. But antichrist pastors peddle that horrid lie of Satan that promotes the attainment of good (be like God) by human striving at dependence on the law which kills and gives the knowledge  of good and evil like the tree of the same name; just look where that attempt landed Adam and Eve, beloved.

Beloved, stop your striving and let Christ love you into wholeness. As was His Way with the woman that was caught in adultery and even Zacchaeus the thieving tax collector, He will never condemn you for your sins, and not so that you should go on sinning sprees as many believe. He will save you from your sins, as it is written of Him in Matthew 1:21–

“She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

The worst thing that a believer can do to himself is try to extricate or save himself from troubles (of his own making or whatever) by his own strength. Judas’ life and death is recorded as an example for us in this regard. He and Peter committed similar sins of betraying Jesus. Peter waited for Christ to restore him. He ended up doing exploits in Christ. Judas looked to himself and tried to get right with God in his own strength (keeping the law concerning restitution.) He failed, got depressed and hung himself-

“For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.” Romans 3:20.

The same thing that happened to the depressed and suicidal Judas who trusted in his own strength (human effort at obedience) to save himself from his troubles is still going on in the world today. Some churchgoers and even those who claim to not believe in God and thus look to/depend on themselves as saviour from their troubles aren't left out: 

What do we think is the major cause of depression and suicide even among unbelievers? It is guilt for sins (aka not measuring up to particular standards) and the ensuing fear, worry, anxiety, hopelessness and sorrow in the heart - no different from what happened to the remorse-filled Judas who blamed himself for his troubles and tried to save himself from them. Beloved, 

“Look around you for salvation from your sins (shortcomings) and troubles and be distressed. 

Look to yourself and be depressed. 

Look to Christ and be at rest.” 

Heard this truth from my pastor:)

Jesus Christ our Great High Priest Himself is Grace - undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour. He is the Way of escape with every trial. His heart of compassion beats for us always. He knows how screwed up we can be and He helps us in our weaknesses. By His obedience, the sinner who believes is made righteous (Romans 5:19,) not so that we should continue to wallow in sins as antichrist pastors love to imply but so that we should get to live in triumph over sin and death (earthly ills are “death begun”):

“And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. 17 For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:16-17.

So ask our heavenly Father now to flood the eyes of your mind with His Light, beloved. He is eagerly waiting to envelope you in His embrace of Grace where He loves His beloved children in Christ into wholeness, even wholeness from sin and death.