asking over and over

[orangecrush98]

i know im going to sound strange but here it goes . my ocd is so hung up on salvation that i cant do anything . i constantly feel i have to stay near my house in case im not saved to ask God to save me . i know Jesus said come to Him . i keep doing it over and over . i dont want to doubt Gods word . also i keep thinking ive got to be perfect before i can come to Him for some reason . just wondering if anyone here has had these thoughts ? i also think well what if its not ocd and its just me !

 

[Heavenheart81]

I can relate to thinking i must be perfect before i come to God, I went a few months obsessing over this, Im telling you right now it is not going to happen, we all want to be perfect before God but thats why we have Jesus. He died because we cant be perfect.

He taught me over the few months that it really isnt going to happen and the more i try to be perfect the more im going to stumble...Sounds a bit weird but for some reason i stumbled so much more..(i think one of the apostles had the same exact problem)

In the end one thing God taught me is He ;oves me no matter what our faults are, He just wants us to try. Let Him take care of the rest from there.

You have to keep telling yourself " Through Christ im good enough!"

brother in Christ

 

[QUannie]

Amen to that Heavenheart81,
Orangecrush...i relate, boy do i relate! I am so sorry your struggling with that! Remeber in John 6:37 Jesus says- All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
If we go to Jesus that means the Father has given us to Him and He will not reject us!!
I feel your pain of your struggle...it is hard, but keep trying to remeber the scripture!
I prayed for you!!!

Q

 

[gracealone]

Hey OrangeC.
Doesn't sound strange to me at all. It just sounds like a typical OCD tactic. I know it's hard when we get into these flares of OCD - I'm praying for you that you will be able to let go of the thoughts and the need to have reassurance about them so you can get to feeling better soon.
Praying for you,
Mitzi

 

[kaykay637]

It IS OCD, believe me on this. As you can probably readily see on this forum, lack of assurance of salvation is very, very, (add about 5 more verys here) common in Christians battling OCD. It' s just one of the manifestations of it often when you're a Christian.

When I first came to Christ, I felt like I had to do it over and over "to get it right." That's OCD thinking -that any of our decisions somehow have to be "perfect."