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I'm on medication right now for my bipolar disorder. It's helping me to stay stable and healthy, but it also has the down side of taking away my ability to communicate with God as clearly as I once did. Before, I used to be able to talk to God and I could see his answers right in front of me and all around me. Now I can no longer do that because my medication clouds up the emotions and thought patterns I once used to be able to feel God. It makes me feel like a failure because I want to be with God, but because of my condition I have to feel far away from Him...
Maybe this is a challenge from God for me to find other ways to connect with Him? Maybe He wants to see if I will continue to try and connect with Him despite having to be on this sort of medication (and it has to be this one because I have other co-occurring conditions that it also treats). If so, I don't want to let God down, so I'll keep working at trying to connect with Him in the ways that I know how.
Anyone else ever feel like God is distant from them? And how do you cope with that?
Maybe this is a challenge from God for me to find other ways to connect with Him? Maybe He wants to see if I will continue to try and connect with Him despite having to be on this sort of medication (and it has to be this one because I have other co-occurring conditions that it also treats). If so, I don't want to let God down, so I'll keep working at trying to connect with Him in the ways that I know how.
Anyone else ever feel like God is distant from them? And how do you cope with that?