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Feeling stuck in life

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I feel stuck in my life right now. I just feel like I'm constantly being judged by people for not being where they were in life when they were my age or their son/daughter/grandchild's age... I am trying to trust God with my life but it is hard when people are making me feel inadequate because I don't have what they have. I am tired of people judging me based on worldly things like college degree, job, and marital status instead of who I am as a person. I try so hard but I cant help it if its not Gods timing for me and all the doors get closed. I try to be okay in the waiting until someone accuses me of being lazy. They don't see the effort I put in they only see what I don't have and it makes me depressed. :'( to everyone reading this, examine how you make others feel who aren't where you are yet in life.
 

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Praying that God give you wisdom and strength to persevere in faith. I've experienced similar circumstances and what I've found is that you've just go to continuously make the conscious decision, against all your natural instincts, to view things in pespective. To reject your negative thoughts and feelings of others' disapproval and instead choosing to rest in and affirm the fact that God created you for His glory and to serve His sovereign and holy purposes. To remember that any work He calls you to, however menial it may seem to you or others has value. To thank Him for the grace He bestows on us, despite us being completely undeserving of it. Of course, doing all this is much easier said than done. It's a continuous battle against the temptation of self-pity that no human can win on his or her own ability. So I pray that God would empower you and that you would have faith in the Lord's deliverance over sin. "…I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness." -Psalm 84:10
 
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I feel stuck in my life right now. I just feel like I'm constantly being judged by people for not being where they were in life when they were my age or their son/daughter/grandchild's age... I am trying to trust God with my life but it is hard when people are making me feel inadequate because I don't have what they have. I am tired of people judging me based on worldly things like college degree, job, and marital status instead of who I am as a person. I try so hard but I cant help it if its not Gods timing for me and all the doors get closed. I try to be okay in the waiting until someone accuses me of being lazy. They don't see the effort I put in they only see what I don't have and it makes me depressed. :'( to everyone reading this, examine how you make others feel who aren't where you are yet in life.

:heart: Bless yer heart. Praying that God shields you from those arrows and that He draws your eyes and focus to Him, especially during those most difficult and painful of moments. May He intervene and minister to you, and heal you every place you hurt, and be the Lifter of your head. Father may it be so, in Jesus name, amen (((hug)))
 
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