What is God like? He feels grief.

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From the book of Amos: “For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and
Createth the wind, and DECLARETH UNTO MAN WHAT IS HIS THOUGHT, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.” (Amos 4:13) What are God’s thoughts? How does he feel about certain things? God does have feelings. One thing he feels is grief.
We read in Genesis that prior to the flood of Noah God felt grief and regret. God does grieve when man is wicked and evil. It states he actually regretted that he had made man in the flesh.
Genesis 6:5 “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”
God search’s to see if there are any who seek him.
Psalms 53:2 “God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.”
The book of Jeremiah tells us that mankind sometimes discourages God to such an extent that he’d just like to go off alone somewhere and cry. God does cry.
Jeremiah 9:1 “Oh, that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they be all adulters, an assembly of treacherous men.”
God grieves and is sometimes so discouraged that he cries.

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