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I just have this weird feeling since coming out of the church.
mrsnacks:
--- Quote from: mari_et_pere on May 26, 2007, 12:08:34 AM ---When I met my wife, I started going to her church with her. It's non-demoninational, so I figured I'd go along with it. That lasted for a while; probably about two years, then off and on for a couple. I can't do it anymore. It turns my stomach to hear about people getting saved. Saved? I can't stand it. It frustrates me that they don't know, they can't see the truth. The pastor all the way down, noone can see.
It really burns me up sometimes that my wife believes in what they say. It's sickening to me.
But I do really understand your weird feeling, guys. Just remember and rejoice in the fact that you have been chosen, BY GOD, to see the truth. Christ has showed you things that many don't ever think of. That is an awesome feeling!
Peace
Matt
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I will pray for you and your wife. Don't be discouraged.
My wife was buying into the church thing as she was raised in the church since she was 6 years old. It has been a slow process but she has been coming around. At first when I would share what God was showing me which was against the doctrines taught in the church, she would give me a suspicious look. A look you could've poured on a waffle. So I backed off and never forced truth on her. It is God that opens the eyes and ears. So eventually in the process God started to show her and in her spirit she knew something wasn't right in the church. And now she has been called out of Babylon. She is coming out. And she has been listening to me. This has taken a long time. But it seems so much shorter. So hang in there. God is in control. Through this God has been teaching me not to be anxious but patient.
mari_et_pere:
I've been trying real hard to think that way. Actually I've done a darn good job at it! We haven't had a "religious" conversation in a long time. God is indeed in control, and I'm pretty sure he'll prevail. :D
I'm hoping in faith that she'll eventually be called out.
Peace.
Matt
jER:
I also felt like "a stranger there."
- Jer
gmik:
Matt, the LOVE you have for your wife will win her. The way you have always talked about her here and on your myspace, well lets just say, she is one very blessed young woman!!!
To all the posters, yep, it is the same journey, more or less, we all have after having our "religion" turned upside down. That "what do I do now?" feeling. Lonely and depressed after being involved. Getting the boot when you have told the wrong person way too much.
I am passed most of that now. Thanks to continuing in the Word, Ray's papers, and this forum. What to do now is not my question. What to be is. Reading Paul tells us how a person should be living and loving God and his neighbor. That is a full time "job"-walking in love. Accepting His will in our lives. Letting him show us our "idols of the heart". Trusting Him for every little thing. It is very hard this "new" life. More on the inside and not the big show "of the outward man".
Going thru the trials of life and the cleansing, purifying fire now is worth feeling a little weird. If I am in the later resurrection it is still worth knowing the truth now.
mari_et_pere:
Gena, thank you for your words! And something else you said hit me.
--- Quote ---If I am in the later resurrection it is still worth knowing the truth now.
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Amen to that! It is well worth knowing the truth. It is well worth knowing where we're going; knowing the ways of God, not to say we know all His ways but you get my drift; knowing the real Jesus of the scriptures and not the man made image; knowing what errors to stay away from. I love it.
Matt
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