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Satan has won. He's given me one blow after another, and christ did nothing to protect me. I give up. Christ is unreliable and impotent.
Sounds like a lot has happened since yesterday when you were asking about monasteries.....what happened?
Satan has won. He's given me one blow after another, and christ did nothing to protect me. I give up. Christ is unreliable and impotent.
He doesn't give me the strength to get into one. So I give up. I am sick of this worldly life.
He doesn't give me the strength to get into one. So I give up. I am sick of this worldly life.
Excellent Post Whiteknuckle, words from the Spirit and very encouraging to say the least.EVERYONE has struggles and hard times. Sometimes it doesn't seem that God is doing anything at all. I've suffered throughout my whole life. One blow after another, and then, just for good measure, a head butt here and a groin kick there. Meh, it's part of life.
Somethings are just a natural occurance of existing. It's a part of life. Don't give Satan too much credit.
If we look, we sabotage our own lives much of the time. If we look, we cause alot of our own pain. If we look deeper, God is there to help us learn from the mistakes, and learn from the suffering and make us stronger people. Sometimes we go through something so horrible and we get mad at God. What if we suffer so we will understand something someone else went through, and be able to comfort them or bring them to the Lord?
I know how you feel, and I know you'll feel differently later. That's a fact. The bad part is how guilty you'll feel for thinking you gave up. It'll be alright.
Have you ever read the poem about the "footprints in the sand?" There was a man who was travelling through the desert with Christ. When he felt close to God he could see Jesus' footprints in the sand next to his but when he felt far away from God he could only see one pair and it felt like he was walking alone. When the man came to the end of the desert he met Jesus and said to him, "why when things were at their toughest was there only one set of footprints?" Jesus said to him, "that was when I was carrying you."
Satan has won. He's given me one blow after another, and christ did nothing to protect me. I give up. Christ is unreliable and impotent.
Satan has won. He's given me one blow after another, and christ did nothing to protect me. I give up. Christ is unreliable and impotent.