Do I want to live in this world? By it's ways? I don't know. I don't want to want that. I struggle with this I don't know why it feels like this. I don't want to be worldly or sin but it feels like I still want to because I might gain something from it like power wealth respect, my own pleasures and such, what I know there is no value of. I went into faith because of the wrong reasons, maybe. I know that to turn back would be foolish. I doubt the Bibles teachings at times. I just want truth. I feel like my temptations are very strong. I want to trust Jesus but I have things like what others think about me as a hinderence. I want to trust Jesus if He is the truth and be secure in that. I believe I went into faith by fear.
I feel like I didn't count the cost of building the tower
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I like your biblical analogy but ask yourself what are you going to be missing out on if you stay in the faith? Are you going to lose friends, acquaintances, good times hanging out with non-believers? It is OK to doubt your decision, but you said you want Truth and Jesus says it Himself "I am the way, the Truth, and the Life, no man cometh unto the Father except through me", (paraphrase) What are you considering your giving up in this world if you continue to keep the faith.
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It does not really matter how you came to faith, God is not after perfection in the sense of all your motives being correct. He wants you saved, but you need to partner with God, we need to strive to enter the narrow pathway.
Eze 33:11 Say to them: 'As I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?'
I would say, don't trade eternal life, for short-term pleasures. It is not worth it.
Mat 13:45-6 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
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There are numerous verses of Scripture that address your current feelings and herein are only a couple. Hang in there.
Prov.1
- [7] The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- [29] For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
[2] My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
[3] Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
- In time perhaps, you will know and understand the following;
- [11] Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
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"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)
In prayer trust God to make you obedient to Him in His peace. And He will give you the strength and encouragement and His creativity to do what He really wants to do . . . in sharing with you.
In prayer trust God to make you obedient to Him in His peace. And He will give you the strength and encouragement and His creativity to do what He really wants to do . . . in sharing with you.
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Perhaps you did ... but after study one gains more understanding about faith ... point is ... no reason to remain in fear .... rather embrace the unconditional Love of the Lord and the faith of Jesus.
Thy word is truth .... believe it!
John 17:17
Berean Literal Bible
Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Be free!
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Hello again. I had to edit my post slightly, as I've already spoken to you. I'm encouraged to read about such a young person who is sincerely searching for the truth. At the age you are now, I was busy with worldly affairs, and my search for truth wouldn't begin until a year or two later. Even then, it would take many more years of searching and going down different paths before I finally submitted to Jesus Christ as "the Way, the Truth and the Life".
You say you went into faith by fear. Of what? Hell? Well we, as Christians, know that we have nothing to fear. Nothing! For Christ has conquered death and hell by His work on the cross and we will join Him in the new creation. Does that mean we won't experience fear? No. We will. But that we know God is there right by us holding our hand, and by Him we have the strength to face and quell the fear, like Jesus calming the storm.
Do you know how many times God tells us not to fear in the Bible? Neither do I, but I know it's a lot.
I wonder if you've had a real conviction of sin - in the sense of feeling the weight of sin that's been inherited from Adam and Eve all through the generations to you, and how that sin now affects you. I wonder if you have experienced repentance for your sins.
But you are still young. Sometimes it takes a life of experiencing the other side, so to speak -the worldly life of all the pleasures of the senses. But I wouldn't recommend that path by choice. You have wisdom though. You know that path is fruitless. Come into the Body of Christ where happiness, friendship and peace resides.
I will continue to pray for you, that God sends His Blessings upon you and guides you into fellowship.
If you can, try and meet with other Christians in your area.
I'll leave these verses here, as I pray. God Bless
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This truth is given Spiritually from the opening in Mathew 24 as it pertains to your Spiritual temple. When Christ says that no stone will be left upon another, the prevailing interpretation is that in A.D 70 the buildings of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem were destroyed. The Spiritual truth is that Christ is the cornerstone of your temple and every stone must be placed by God the Father or they are all coming down. It’s God who builds your temple and not you. This truth will come up again in Scripture. When the strong man of the house is evaluated, it is Christ who does the evaluation and not you. Also, the strong man of the house is you but it is Christ who assesses that before doing what needs to be done. Pray on this.
Matt.24
[1] And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
[2] And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
[3] And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
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