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space.ace.jase:
Hi all,

I don't really post all that often but I'm really struggling at the moment.

Basically over the last last 3 months my life has taken a sharp nose dive and my plans for leaving my job and risking it all to go back to study have basically gone up in flames. I thought this is what God was leading me to do but why would he want me to fail at it?

I won't go into too much details but my depression is stronger than ever and I will be heading back to see my psychiatrist in 2 weeks (earliest appointment I could make) but why would God take away the last thing that was barely keeping me going? I have felt lead to start reading the whole bible (which I have never done) and have been reading the Bible daily (when I barely used to read one single verse a day) and how does God show his love? By making me suffer more than I ever have and when I have been asking for his strength to help me I am denied it and left with nothing.

I know God is sovereign and one day I may understand this all this but I just wanted to hear other peoples stories about when things have completely failed in their lives and they pulled through.

Thanks guys.

Rene:

--- Quote from: space.ace.jase on April 27, 2012, 10:31:54 AM ---
I thought this is what God was leading me to do but why would he want me to fail at it?


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Hi Jase,

Could it be possible God is teaching you something new about yourself?  Instead of thinking of "failing" at something, why not think of it as an opportunity to do something else.  It's all about "cause and effect."  You are apparently being "forced" to look at another option in your life.  It may be a very painful, frustrating and scary time for you, but what is happening to you now is not the end of the situation. 

I can honestly tell you that not very long ago, I too was going through a very anxious, fearful time in my life.  However, at just the right time, God rescued me from this situation, although the rescue came after I had learned some very painful lessons about myself.  In hindsight, I can now see how valuable that tumultuous time of my life was for me.  I am now grateful for the whole experience because the humiliation of it all helped me to grow in some very significant ways. :)

René

arion:
What seems as a 'failure' on our part is simply part of God's bigger plan for your life.  One of the most important things that I have learned is that I can't screw it up.  I always believed the scripture;

Rom 8:38-38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Yet at the same time I believed that although even satan himself can't keep me from the love of God that yet somehow I had the power on my own to keep me away from God.  That was always frightening to me as I thought that I myself had the power to thwart God's plan for my life.  Goes back into the 'freewill' thing that we are all inculcated with during our time in Babylon.

You can't possibly screw up God's plan for you.  Even though you don't know the steps your taking and you feel that you have failed yet at the same point in time even now you are exactly where God wants you to be....even in the midst of perceived failures.  It is those very failures that allows us to 'look back' at a later time and see that God's hand was there all along.  It brings little comfort when you are going through it and it won't be until later that you can see it but right now your exactly where God wants you to be and your doing exactly what God wants you to do.  You may not know the way but HE is the way and it is enough.  You do not in and of yourself have the power to mess up God's plan for your life.  Coming to understand this truth brings great freedom as it takes all the pressure off your shoulders.  Whether I am destined to be a vessel of honor or dishonor I do not yet know.  What I do know is God is both able and has promised to bring me to be where I need to be in the end and I can rest in that.

ez2u:
a thankful heart goes a long way  are you being pick on   no  your life is being adjusted a little   just a little

space.ace.jase:
Thank you for the kind words John, Rene and Arion. It really helped a lot  :)



--- Quote from: ez2u on April 27, 2012, 10:12:41 PM ---a thankful heart goes a long way  are you being pick on   no  your life is being adjusted a little   just a little

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Yes you are right I do need to change my heart, Proverbs 3:11 comes to mind...

"My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction"

Thanks again  :)

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