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Just need to vent how about you?
Pierdut:
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Kat:
Pierdut, it's about attitude... you keep trying to fix yourself, because you have not remove the beast off of it's throne. You can't fix yourself! You think God is not listening or doesn't care and won't answer your prayers... you have made Him into an unjust, unfair God in your own mind. Even in your posting the anger comes through.
We all will eventually come to the point when we realize that we have nothing of any good within our self, nothing! That includes any ability to correct our own wrong behavior. When we finally give up on being able to do any good, even for our self, we will turn to God in a truly humble attitude and seek the help we need... then we will find a loving God. It takes a lot, that's really an understatement of what it takes to get to that point of giving up or removing the beast off it's throne, but when that really happens it is a blessing beyond compare. God will bring all to that point, eventually.
Php 4:7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
rick:
Hi Pierdut
My life has change in many ways also and not for the better in the way of the world , five years ago I left B.T. and went on my way, My wife Donna got sick in 2003 and died July 28 2009 , I held her hand as she drew her last breath.
My heart was crushed, the pain I had experience was so great I wanted to die that same night my wife Donna died. It took me one and a half years to except she was really gone.
After that year and a half had passed by I felt very lonely and became a workaholic, home was just a place to go when there was nothing left to do.
I had purchase a motorcycle and rode it with a passion and became a man of the world living it up, you know, women, wine ,hotels and fine restaurants .
Then things started going wrong in my life , things became difficult for me and happiness eluded me, something change and don’t ask me how I knew but I knew God was behind this change I was going through.
I found myself trying to remember this site B.T. I had been on five years earlier and when I did I started reading the lake of fire series for awhile , now I’m back.
The answer to your question is simple although you may not see it yet but you will, I read this in the bible but don’t know the scripture but says this ( be quiet and know that I am God ) well to me that means meditating and waiting on the Lord.
I find its God, who motivates me these days and strengthen me to endure those things I must endure. It really is in Gods time , but having said that I can relate to many things you said.
My heart goes out to you, you know sometimes when we win we really loose and when we loose we win.
I like how Paul the apostle said it when he said I been abound and abased ,right now I’m abased and I’m ok with that but not long ago I was abound living it up but God put and end to that for me and now He is showing me something that are worth more than all the gold on earth.
Our life here on earth is only for a short season and in this season I remember God allots to each and everyone what they shall have and what they shall have not. Its really is of God no matter what we go through but remember the words of Paul the apostle when he said ( I reckoned the suffering we go through is nothing compared to the glory we shall one day be cloths with ) .
I hope you can find some comfort in these things I said to you but now that I remember, when my wife died it didn’t matter what people said to me because the pain within was to great to hear what people were saying.
Peace and love to all.
arion:
--- Quote from: Pierdut on December 03, 2013, 09:19:11 PM ---
If you read all this, and gave a damn, I thank you, and may God bless you.
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Kat gave you some good advice in the post just below yours. We can't fix ourselves, we can't quit sinning and dropping bad habits on our own power or anything else. I think of Christ saying that without his Father he could do nothing. And then he tells us that without him we can do nothing. The more we try to fix what is wrong with us and the harder we struggle the tighter our chains become. At least that has been my experience.
Right now believe it or not you are right where God wants to you to be. Sooner or later you will quit trying to change yourself and God will give you a peace about your situation. You'll begin to trust that God knows what he's doing and that your safe in his hands and then things will start to change for you. Until then it's a process of beating your head against a brick wall. With God's help I'm starting to quit the banging of the head because it hurts too much. As long as we think that we can work to change our own situation...our situation won't change very much if at all.
I know God loves me. I know he has promised to conform me to the image of his son. And I also know that I am powerless to change myself from what I am to what God wants me to be. God will get me where I need to be when I need to be there. I realize all the scriptures about striving, working out our own salvation, faith, ect. It's just that when God does it that it is the power of His spirit striving, working and building faith, ect. God will get you to where you need to be when you need to be there. That realization takes the weight off of your shoulders which is a weight we were never able to carry in the first place.
lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: Pierdut on December 03, 2013, 09:19:11 PM ---But none of this helps me; when prayer doesn't seem to work; when working hard and giving it all you got doesn't seem to work; when nothing you do, works, what is a person supposed to do?
At least there's no eternal torture in "Hellfire" waiting for me, but there is judgment... Or maybe that's what I'm going through now, and that's why my life is so difficult, so miserable, and why everything I try fails?
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I'll tell you what you do Pierdut, NOTHING. Let go, let go , LET GO. DO NOTHING. There is a reason we are admonished to:
Psalm 123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Psalm 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
Isaiah 30:18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Stop trying to fix yourself. Just wait upon the Lord and make your petitions known to Him with thanksgiving. IN HIS TIME Pierdut. This is one of the hardest lessons for any of us to learn and I'm still learning it. We need to LET GO of trying to fix things ourselves, of trying to be in control and just WAIT UPON THE LORD.
--- Quote from: Pierdut on December 03, 2013, 09:19:11 PM ---I know that the Scriptures say that everyone will eventually be given immortality unable to ever die again... But I'm afraid that I'll spend eternity thinking about the life I never got to have and I'll just be depressed and miserable with no way out.
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When I read this, I hear someone who is fixated on the world. Spend eternity thinking about "this life you never got?" What are you talking about? Life contains the experience of evil. Do you think its sunshine and roses for anyone? Let alone for those who are called by His name?
In Christ,
Alex
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