Struggles with Faith, Love, and Anxiety

I struggle with this too. Alot actually...one thing I thought about when I was awake at night yesterday was just be grateful..make a lost, pray to God and tell him what you're grateful for ...

Because when we are grateful, we remind ourselves of what we do have...and that were not losing everything.

Also reminding myself that I'm 25 and not 85 and that I need to act like it helps sometimes too.

DO NOT WORRY....

Psalm119:50,52,92,93,107, Isaiah 61:1-3, Psalm 68:19, 2Corinthians 1:3-11, Psalm 115:3-8, Psalm 107:41, Psalm 116:6-9, Psalm 22:24, Psalm 94:17-19, Psalm 142:2,3, Romans 15:13, Psalm 121:1,3,7, Psalm 50:15, Psalm 34:6,17,18,19, Psalm 69, Psalm 37:24,39, Psalm 46:1, Psalm 30:11, 31:6-10, Psalm 62, Psalm 6, Psalm 147:3, 4:16-18, 7:6, 12:8,9,10, Lamentations 3:1-66, Psalm 138:7, Psalm 43:5, Psalm 118:5, Psalm 12:5, Psalm 22:24, Psalm18:27,28, Psalm 20:1


YOU ARE LOVED!

1 John 3:1, 4:10,16,19, Psalm 145, John 3:16, 14:21,23, 16:27, 17:23,26, Psalm
103:8,11,13,17,18, Psalm 108:4, Psalm 63:3, Psalm 147, Psalm 52, Psalm 40:5, Psalm 16:3, Psalm 25, Psalm 130, Ephesians 2:4-9, 3:14-19, 5:1, 6:23, Psalm 136, Psalm 73, Psalm 33, Psalm 62:12, Psalm 117:2, Psalm 119:76, Lamentations 3:22,23,25,31,32,33, Titus 3:4,5, Psalm 13, Galatians 6:2

Angeleyes7715 said:

These are the ungodly thoughts I battle that are making me miserable. What can I do to improve this?

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Like Far Side mentioned, when I get to feeling this way, I'll think about how much worse it can be. That may not be the godly way of going about it, but it helps me tremendously.

Your situation sounds pretty bad. Yet, it may help you to know that the Lord could have made it so much worse. So, when you feel angry at him for giving you the situation you're in, you may want to consider the things he *hasn't* done to you. Do you have two arms and two legs? For some people, the Lord took away those things from them, and not having them having been born that way so they didn't know what it was like, not that that makes it much easier I can imagine. Still, most people would assume that they may lose an arm or leg or something and that may be tragic but there's hardly a person out there that is prepared to lose all their limbs. That would be an unimaginably difficult life.

I'm assuming you can see since you're posting these things (though I'm pretty sure there's these kinds of programs where blind people can post on the internet); yet I do remember you saying you worked in a pharmacy, so I'm pretty sure you have to be able to see in order to do that. At any day, the Lord may take away your ability to see. It may happen suddenly, not over the course of time. Be thankful every day that the Lord gives you the precious gift of sight! He doesn't have to do that!

You mentioned you lived in a rather meager place (those weren't the exact words, but the effect was that you weren't living high off the hog or anything and would prefer to be able to move away). Do you at least have in door plumbing and running water? The Lord didn't have to give you those things. He could have easily put you in a country where the majority of the homes don't have these conveniences. All of us who have such gracious gifts should be praising the Lord daily for such magnificent kindness! I can hardly imagine and do not know at all how horrible it would be to have to haul water in from a well that may not even be that close by everyday for daily use. And then have to heat it like to take a shower. And then even worse, have to use the bathroom outside and maybe not even have any toilet paper (and being a hiker I'm very used to doing some things outdoors in a pinch; I'm talking about other things, but I'll save the language since it's crude. I'll figure you'll get what I'm talking about). It seems many people take such things for granted when I don't understand how they can even think that way. Indoor plumbing isn't air, it isn't just there--it's only there by the wonderful kindness of the Lord!!! He has given us such wonderful amazing gifts!!! We really can't praise him enough (speaking of air, that doesn't have to be there either).

Those are just some of the things. I can go on and on. But it really helps, at least to me, to realize how much we really have even if we don't seem to have as much as we would like.