Im trying to remember if God allowed it then it can't be more than I can bear. It seems overwhelming but it can't be more than I can bear.
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God never allows more than you can bear. He is sovereign. Even if he does tell us why OCD is happening to us... 1) Our trust in him won't develop 2) Our brains are so tiny compared to him that made the Universe. He has infinite knowledge, So we can put our trust in him because he knows better than us and knows what He's doing. God is not taken back by OCD. Before you even existed, God knows what would happen to you. He has known it all along. God also knows what your end will be. He has beautifully woven together every part of your life to mold you into the image of his son. C.S. Lewis once wrote and said that its pointless for us to question God (even though most of us do), because its questioning the One who gave us the ABILITY to question. It's overwhelming but it's not more than you can bear. When God has finished his work with you in this trial, He will come for you. You just have to BELIEVE in Christ's power to save and heal.
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The more my OCD overwhelmed me, the more I leaned on God.
So if I can take one positive from my illness is that it brought me to a place where I saw that Jesus is my only hope. I was lost, broken and he was all I had left to hold on to.
My advice to you is to not let your illness drive you away from God, instead run to him. Just keeping praying, keeping talking to God. Lean on him and trust him. Listen to praise music. These were really the only things that got me through when I was at my lowest point.
It might feel like OCD has control of you right now but that's not true. You can use this horrible illness for good.
You can use it as motivation to draw closer to God. To lean on him completely.
For me also it's given me a desire to help others suffering from this illness and an empathy towards people with mental health problems that I never had before.
Will pray for you Alma.
So if I can take one positive from my illness is that it brought me to a place where I saw that Jesus is my only hope. I was lost, broken and he was all I had left to hold on to.
My advice to you is to not let your illness drive you away from God, instead run to him. Just keeping praying, keeping talking to God. Lean on him and trust him. Listen to praise music. These were really the only things that got me through when I was at my lowest point.
It might feel like OCD has control of you right now but that's not true. You can use this horrible illness for good.
You can use it as motivation to draw closer to God. To lean on him completely.
For me also it's given me a desire to help others suffering from this illness and an empathy towards people with mental health problems that I never had before.
Will pray for you Alma.
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That's true. This has increased my empathy for people with mental illness. Especially people with schizophrenia or other more severe mental diseases. God can use this to make us more compassionate and more likely to trust him and his word.The more my OCD overwhelmed me, the more I leaned on God.
So if I can take one positive from my illness is that it brought me to a place where I saw that Jesus is my only hope. I was lost, broken and he was all I had left to hold on to.
My advice to you is to not let your illness drive you away from God, instead run to him. Just keeping praying, keeping talking to God. Lean on him and trust him. Listen to praise music. These were really the only things that got me through when I was at my lowest point.
It might feel like OCD has control of you right now but that's not true. You can use this horrible illness for good.
You can use it as motivation to draw closer to God. To lean on him completely.
For me also it's given me a desire to help others suffering from this illness and an empathy towards people with mental health problems that I never had before.
Will pray for you Alma.
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Thank you. I'm really trying and pressing. It feels so unreal and overwhelming at times but im holding on.The more my OCD overwhelmed me, the more I leaned on God.
So if I can take one positive from my illness is that it brought me to a place where I saw that Jesus is my only hope. I was lost, broken and he was all I had left to hold on to.
My advice to you is to not let your illness drive you away from God, instead run to him. Just keeping praying, keeping talking to God. Lean on him and trust him. Listen to praise music. These were really the only things that got me through when I was at my lowest point.
It might feel like OCD has control of you right now but that's not true. You can use this horrible illness for good.
You can use it as motivation to draw closer to God. To lean on him completely.
For me also it's given me a desire to help others suffering from this illness and an empathy towards people with mental health problems that I never had before.
Will pray for you Alma.
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What do you do when the thoughts are about the Lord and your trying really hard to fight them. It makes me upset with myself.
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You understand how intrusive thoughts work right?
The more you try to fight them the more they will keep coming back.
I have intrusive blasphemous thoughts. When they first started I was almost constantly crying and repenting for them but this became too much as I was constantly being bombarded by these thoughts.
To repent for them all would have been impossible.So you have to come to a place where you trust God enough to be able to ignore these thoughts without hating yourself for them and constantly repenting.
It's about trusting that God knows you, knows your heart and knows that you don't want or mean these thoughts. Now clearly these thoughts are unwanted because they upset you and you are 'trying to fight them'. Therefore you can ignore them knowing (and more importantly trusting) that God understands what you are going through and is not blaming you for unwanted thoughts caused by OCD!
One Christian resource I read said that Christians with OCD have a unique opportunity to please God by showing him they trust him enough to ignore the compulsions. I thought that was a lovely way of looking at it.
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