I have obsessive compulsive disorder. I used to woray that God wanted me to leave my husband because of perceived vows and things but I know that God's design is permanent marriage. However, because I have OCD I sometimes think if I do certain things that it means I'm calling God something bad or that being with my husband means that I'm saying something bad about God. Because of that sometimes I will deliberately pray the opposite so that I can feel ok. For example if I thought that wearing some pants meant something bad then I might pray and tell God that it doesn't mean that as long as I wear the pants or something but then if change my pants I will feel guilty. It's even worse when I do it only to get out of something. For example if the previous day I said I had to clean my chairs the next day and then that day I realize I forgot and I'm about to leave then I will change it and deliberately say that being with my husband doesn't mean that I'm saying something bad about God so I don't have to clean(I feel bad writing it but I don't actually mean it I'm just writing about it) but then if I forget and spray the chair then I feel like I'm bound to what I said since I prayed very seriously to a make it ok and that if I stay with my husband it will be bad. Will God forgive m? My mom says He won't hold me to that but if I say it out of laziness then how could it be alright?
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Hello,
You can be confident that God does not want you to leave your husband. Even in the case of marital unfaithfulness, divorce is allowable, but not necessarily prescribed. It's not good to be lazy, but you vowed to love each other until death do you part, not until one of you does something that's lazy or forgets to do something. We can't change ourselves, so happily it is not up to us to do that, but rather it is God who grants us repentance and changes us to be more like Christ. Keeping your word is also important, but if you don't, then that doesn't say anything bad about God, that only says something bad about you, which is something that God will always grant you repentance for. God is doing a good work in you that He will carry to completion on the day of Christ Jesus, so if something about you needs changing, then trust God to change it.
You can be confident that God does not want you to leave your husband. Even in the case of marital unfaithfulness, divorce is allowable, but not necessarily prescribed. It's not good to be lazy, but you vowed to love each other until death do you part, not until one of you does something that's lazy or forgets to do something. We can't change ourselves, so happily it is not up to us to do that, but rather it is God who grants us repentance and changes us to be more like Christ. Keeping your word is also important, but if you don't, then that doesn't say anything bad about God, that only says something bad about you, which is something that God will always grant you repentance for. God is doing a good work in you that He will carry to completion on the day of Christ Jesus, so if something about you needs changing, then trust God to change it.
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Thank you. I felt bad typing about it because when I was worried aboutvows ny husbmd said to just think they don't mean anything unless I put them in writing but I'm just writing about it. I just want to know that God will let me change my mind if I told Him that I wasn't calling him something bad as long as I did whatever I said I would do and then didn't do it. I know it's bad but out started out with ocd and it's a habit in my thinking and I started using it to try to feel better
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