For my few readers, i ask the question, How do Personally know God is there, knowing your relationship with him is Genuine?
There is a article that my roomie came across in i think it was physcology today, or something close to it, and it Talked about a pastor in a luthern church in the states somewhere. IT said that this pastor one day thought and decided he wasn't a Christian anymore. But he still was a preacher in this church.. but the end part doesn't matter, compared too, Him just deciding he didnt believe anymore.
I don't get it, at the moment i am struggling in feeling the prescence of God, which hits me in hearing his voice, knowing him, etc. So there you go, Christians Struggle, I struggle, and at the moment its probaby one of the hardest struggles of my life.
Please leave a comment of your thoughts, story, struggles, I would love to read and chatt with you upon your comments
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Honestly, I don't. I haven't known anything else, and am kind of scared to run away to try something new. Something about going to hell and such. That's scary. So instead, since this frightful thing could fall on me if I bother with anything else, abandoning 'the faith', I figure I should try to run this the best I can. Find God, know Him, live it. Maybe, one day, I'll end up like the preacher and quit. Or I'll find God and know Him and love it. I don't know yet. That might not help you. Sorry.
Sometimes its so easy and beautiful to believe. Sometimes its so frustratingly not.
My relationship seemed a bit static (probably due to me) up to just recently when God went and blew my mind again... not like that's supposed to be like "just hang in there and things will get better" but it's just where i'm at.
I've doubted lots and questioned lots and failed to trust lots of stuff about God, and maybe that's in part of our relationship with him... But I don't think Jesus necessarily said it'd be easy. (not like this is supposed to injustify what your saying or anything) Its just... i'm thinking of the time when Jesus was kind of rebuking his disciples or something and said something like "You see and believe, but blessed are those who do not see and yet believe"
yea... theres something short and probably subsuficient... hm
There was a time in either late 2nd year or early 3rd year where I did not feel God at all. I felt literally dead; nothing affected me, I didn't feel like the Bible really spoke to me, I wasn't grieved by sin and really I couldn't really grasp the effects of sin. I had some stuff in my life I wanted to change (not saying this is where you're at.) and so I cried out to God, literally cried out to Him to change me - and I felt drier and more empty than before. I could feel nothing of God, it was like He didn't exist. I was so frustrated.
A pastor friend of mine once told me that in the summer, when there is less water, the trees spread out their roots and grow them. That way when the rains come in the fall and winter, they have enough roots not to be washed away or blown over.
All I can say is, keep reading your Bible, even if you don't get anything from it. Keep praying, even if you don't feel God. He does hear you.
"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
--Eph 3:16-21
I grew up in a Christian home but never felt the closeness to God that my family talked about. Recently my father has felt himself called to the ministry and asked our family to pray and fast for 10 days, and he gave us 10 questions to pray about. I've fallen into the bible and praying and for the first time in my life I really feel called to do God's work also. realizing you need to follow him is the 1st step. Just continue praying and focusing on him and all will be revealed to you in time. Don't lose faith when it's hard, continue on and you will find that you're closer to him and happier than you ever thought imaginable.
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