God applies a negative influence to separate people from their attachment to the world system. He wants to reveal any ideas, values, attitudes or perspectives that hold people back from allegiance with Him.
There seems to be two main ways that God uses. God confronts people with their moral failure. And He accentuates the existential dissonance between the ideals people seek and the reality they live.
The goal is the same in both. To get man to wake up to the fact that there is something wrong with life. And with their life in particular.
Each way applies a different type of pressure. In the first, everyone understands that there is a right and a wrong. If they try to live morally and become aware that their choices embrace the wrong too often, they may seek a solution that only God can provide. The way that Jesus provided. And that way requires a change of allegiance.
In the second, we need to realize that God has made man to live a fulfilled life. Songs, stories and commercials all show man is looking for that fulfilled life, but does not seem to find it. That's because man was designed to live in a love relationship with God, and any attempt to find fulfillment that does not include this relationship is doomed to failure. So, God uses life experiences to draw attention to the dissonance man feel in his longings for fulfillment and the reality he lives. Man will seek to bring harmony to his internal dissonance. So, he will be drawn back to allegiance with God, and the life he is meant to live.
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