Sounds like a playground bully.
He can do as he pleases, because there is no way we can stop him.
Why do you think he wants to make us miserable?
Answer if you care to.
You have already gone above and beyond expectations in addressing my questions. If you are done with me, I understand. No worries.
Because it's about Him, not us.
That's why.
Let's look at John 11, the story of Lazarus
1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
So let's break that down. Jesus loved Lazarus, but instead of going to help him when he was sick, and Jesus had the power to do so, He healed many who were sick, Jesus procrastinated.
Jesus
let Lazarus die.
He loved Lazarus, but let him die.
Lazarus even means "God will help" But here, at least on the surface, God refused to help.
Why? Because resurrecting someone from the dead, brings more glory to God, than healing someone who is sick.
Now jumping down a bit, Jesus has now told his disciples that Lazarus was dead and was going to see him.
32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
So we see, that yes, Jesus let Lazarus die, and said no to helping him while he was still alive. But it was not something that He enjoyed having to do. This was not light or frivolous, it was to greater establish that He is the Son of God and He is the resurrection and the life.
So God is neither a genie in a bottle giving us everything we wish
Nor is God a playground bully, He actually does care, even if He causes us to suffer for a season.
He does what is greatest for His own glory, but at the same time... I have to believe that He will make it worth it for us as well, because He does care.
I just wish the bible was less fuzzy on that part.
Because if your only promise is to see the person who refused to help you when you needed it.... that's not much of a reward.
I don't know how, because the bible is fuzzy on it, but I believe God would make it up to Lazarus in a way to have made his suffering and perhaps two deaths (unless he was raptured to not die the second time, the bible doesn't mention it) worth it.... and more so than just, seeing the God that let you die perhaps twice.
