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Feeling like there is nothing but misery on this earth...
G. Driggs:
Hi space,
I dont enjoy the same things I used, but there are new and different things that Im learning to enjoy. I enjoy coming here and reading posts encouraging the brethren, refuting heretics, leaving links to Ray's papers at every post, playing with my kids, riding our atv, playing with my kids and making them happy. It's the little things I didnt notice before that Im finding good. A big one being this experience of evil God is putting us through. I really appreciate God putting me through this cause I know He is training us to be like Him. As much as it sucks sometimes I know this life is very short and God is very merciful and He means it for good.
Patric:
--- Quote from: space.ace.jase on October 07, 2012, 04:24:39 AM ---Hello all,
Just wanted to ask a quick question in regards to how you all feel about your time left on this planet.. do you enjoy it? some of it? none of it?
Lately everything just feels likes it is getting worse and worse and I cannot seem to find anything good or anything worth even getting enthused at. I feel like every single day left on the planet will be nothing BUT misery.
I know in the end God will save the whole world but that seems like a million years away..
--- End quote ---
Romans 8:18-27
Good questions. Brother I too am frequently torn between being content....filled with joy, and shocked at the evils not only of the world, but of my own wretched mind! The book of Romans is filled with so much good spiritual meat.....I hear L. Ray Lewis say the same during one of his teachings to a group on a retreat....and I find this very true.....Romans is most likely my favorite book....and many things have opened my eyes ears and dead spirit taught by Ray and or others and the Spirit of course to these facts. Comfort, peace, truth, and a hope in things to come has me content in Christ, yet while my body falls apart, and my mind and life is not a cake walk. There certainly is no confidence in the flesh in my believe and conviction. I also do not dwell so much on the negative that I walk around depressed, but years ago I suffered from clinical major depression, and tried to take my own life and went through a dark period for many years. Now I have balance, as well as confidence that what is written in Romans 8:18-27 is true for all humanity and it is the only thing that gives me peace and keeps my sanity, or from slipping back into depression, or from putting my faith in money, or life, or the small things this world has to offer. Psalms tells us that each day is from the Lord and praise and be glad in it. I happen to say as long as it is the Fathers will.....then we will go to this or that city....and do this or that project and there will glory to his name. I also say this when things fall apart, including.....bankruptcy, mental illness, leg injury, lost of mother and father, best friend dying, girlfriend leaving me, house foreclosed, car repossessed, taxes owed to the government. These things will not shake me, and although far worse and similar things befall all humankind. So even amongst so much misery my eyes are not on what is seen.....but what is unseen, and my faith is not in things that are fleeting. So in the middle of hell and storms and the like we can know that our God is willing this and in control and has something incredible for us as we are made into his image.
Samson:
--- Quote from: space.ace.jase on October 07, 2012, 04:24:39 AM ---Hello all,
Just wanted to ask a quick question in regards to how you all feel about your time left on this planet.. do you enjoy it? some of it? none of it?
Lately everything just feels likes it is getting worse and worse and I cannot seem to find anything good or anything worth even getting enthused at. I feel like every single day left on the planet will be nothing BUT misery.
I know in the end God will save the whole world but that seems like a million years away..
--- End quote ---
I can relate and empathize with everything you stated in the above. We have the hope of happier times in future Eons floating somewhere in Our Minds & Figurative Hearts and that's good, a sure hope in the Resurrection from the Dead or Death State, but We have no choice in dealing with the everyday stress, sometimes and maybe often times and figuring out what choice is best in every given situation, feels like a ping pong or dodging darts. Circumstances can happen so fast or Prior Causes can happen so very fast causing a choice that We wish We didn't make, but it was the only possible choice We could have made under those particular circumstances, because We don't have Free Will or Free Choice or Free Moral Agency. Even if We can't take anymore and are overwhelmed too much and We choose to " Check out," even that's a Caused Choice.
To sum it all up, " Afraid of Living and Afraid of Dying," at the same time, sounds negative & pessimistic, but only the Spiritual aspect of this Life and God's control over emotions can circumvent this weakened disposition, but I certainly feel like you do lately, obviously, I can't or won't blame you, it is what it is.
May God Help You in Your struggles, Samson.
acomplishedartis:
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--- Quote from: space.ace.jase on October 07, 2012, 04:24:39 AM ---I know in the end God will save the whole world but that seems like a million years away..
--- End quote ---
Well. that's a matter of perspective. If we get closer to that premise, it will seem not that far away then. We can actually try to relate that premise with pretty much any topic and problem and that helps a lot, (It will also keep you busy for a loong time, and after a while you will might forget how miserable you used to feel).
It's like you have to go trough this level to then be able to get to the next, and the more you overcome the more freedom you have, first on your mind and then sometimes, if life enables you, you can have more physical freedom, but I am becoming to find out that the spirit with which we do anything is what is the real deal.
Dave in Tenn:
I'm interested in science, creative work of all sorts, the good things people try to do against the odds and opposition. There are admirable traits and things to emulate as well as evil traits and things to avoid. Sometimes they are found in the same person! That interests me too.
Even so...Vanity, vanity...all is vanity. Even knowing that makes me happier inside. Because I know that all the arguments, suspicion, fears, strifes, envies, murders, ignorance, pride, sin and self-righteousness are going to be made right. I'll see it sooner if they are made right in me first. Might as well cooperate, even if it's hard. If it's a done deal..and it is...why not?
Saul, Saul...why do you kick against the goads?
Like Rene said...the Good news is GOOD. But it's a struggle, I'll admit, to get past all the noise and chaos to be still and know that He is God. The more I study and meditate on what's true, the better the Gospel is. In fact, its been sort of a barometer both for seeing my own life and for understanding the plan that when the "Gospel " I think I know starts being less 'good'. there's either something wrong with me, or with what I think I know.
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