Hi everyone. I'm new to these forums and this is my first time on any Christian board so please bare in mind my newness. I wasn't too sure where to post this so sorry if this is the wrong place. I'll go ahead and give you guys a little background before I start the topic.
I was raised Baptist when I was a child but during my teenage years I began questioning the existence of God and started identifying as Atheist. I just started slowly coming back and now am Christian again. Also I suffer from mental illness and depression and God gives me hope that things will one day be better. I struggle everyday wondering why I haven't done anything with myself. I've never been able to hold a job so I have no income. I dropped out of college. Currently i live with my family and have very few friends. So I ask what is success and why does it feel like I'm such a loser.
Society tells us that going to college, raising a family, owning a home, having a good career are all things that are considered successful. From being an athiest I can tell you that atheists say that life is like a canvas; painting your own life doing what you think is good for you. But it is obvious that even the most well preserved painting eventually fades, no longer existing. Most nonbelievers say good works are the way to success. But no matter the good works you do it still matters not, for they were all pointless at your deathbed. So what can say about those big succesors who change the world, such the major billionaires. They leave a legacy behind so perhaps their works really did count for something. Well we know this simply to not be true. Because even those legacies will die in the grand scheme of things. Indeed even athiests say the same thing. They say the universe will over expand and die out. We say that Jesus will come and there will be a new heaven and new earth. Both are nearly the same, the only difference being that our teaching says there will be a new beginning. And in this new beginning all legacies left in the old world won't matter. Why? Because its in the past. So then I ask what is Success? At the moment, I honestly don't know. Im not well read in the bible and I have too much to learn still. Please can somebody tell me what the bible says about success and what God considers it to be. What can I do to make my life better?
I was raised Baptist when I was a child but during my teenage years I began questioning the existence of God and started identifying as Atheist. I just started slowly coming back and now am Christian again. Also I suffer from mental illness and depression and God gives me hope that things will one day be better. I struggle everyday wondering why I haven't done anything with myself. I've never been able to hold a job so I have no income. I dropped out of college. Currently i live with my family and have very few friends. So I ask what is success and why does it feel like I'm such a loser.
Society tells us that going to college, raising a family, owning a home, having a good career are all things that are considered successful. From being an athiest I can tell you that atheists say that life is like a canvas; painting your own life doing what you think is good for you. But it is obvious that even the most well preserved painting eventually fades, no longer existing. Most nonbelievers say good works are the way to success. But no matter the good works you do it still matters not, for they were all pointless at your deathbed. So what can say about those big succesors who change the world, such the major billionaires. They leave a legacy behind so perhaps their works really did count for something. Well we know this simply to not be true. Because even those legacies will die in the grand scheme of things. Indeed even athiests say the same thing. They say the universe will over expand and die out. We say that Jesus will come and there will be a new heaven and new earth. Both are nearly the same, the only difference being that our teaching says there will be a new beginning. And in this new beginning all legacies left in the old world won't matter. Why? Because its in the past. So then I ask what is Success? At the moment, I honestly don't know. Im not well read in the bible and I have too much to learn still. Please can somebody tell me what the bible says about success and what God considers it to be. What can I do to make my life better?