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Imagine you were the pilot of a ship out on the ocean. Someone got to your navigational equipment and sabotaged it, so it kept giving false readings. Knowing that, would you follow what it says?i cant feel it i think am unable to feel it
PS. no they don't deserve it, but neither did I deserve Gods grace and forgivness either.Sin will choke the word right out of you.
my advice is if you have any unforgivness towards any who has wronged you.
FIND THEM and forgive them.
The way we are at sea now days, if the GPS failed then we would all be lost. I wonder how much this is a picture of the state of our Church as well.Imagine you were the pilot of a ship out on the ocean. Someone got to your navigational equipment and sabotaged it, so it kept giving false readings. Knowing that, would you follow what it says?
No, you would need a more accurate way to tell direction. So you look to the sky instead, and read the position of the sun, moon and stars, because you know that doesn't change. This way, you find your way into port, and there you can have your equipment repaired.
It's the same with us sometimes, with feelings. We get damaged for one reason or another in life, and our feelings become warped. We interpret things inaccurately, because that's the way it feels, and if we go by those feelings, we end up way off course - just as the enemy who sabotaged us wants.
Instead, when our feelings are messed up, we need to turn to the unchanging Word of God. It never fails. God has exalted His Word above even His Name, and He has declared that His Word will stand forever.
That Word says you are loved. It says that if you place your trust in the Name of Jesus, you will be saved. It says He will never leave nor forsake you, and that is true no matter how it feels, for indeed, it also says that in the world we will have tribulation.
The sooner you can stop chasing feelings, and start standing on the Word of God, the sooner you will start gaining the power to walk right out of the bondage this world put you in, and onto higher ground. There is no limit to how high we can go in the Lord, but it all rests on faith.
Hold fast to the Lord Jesus. Trust in His love no matter what. It will be a protection for your soul.
Don't be sorry. This is a problem every sincere disciple has at one time or another. Indeed, it's baked right into God's program of discipleship. He intends to mature us, to wean us off being spoon-fed, and that means that every time we are ready to take a step higher, we must leave our comfort zones and rely only on faith in His Word as our guide. In time, the feelings will come into line. They have to, because Jesus is Lord of them as well, but there is an initial period where they may seem askew. If this isn't happening regularly in any Christian's life, he simply is not growing.edit ...sorry
On reflection it occurs to me that this analogy is also flawed in a way that also reflects a failure in the culture we live.Imagine you were the pilot of a ship out on the ocean. Someone got to your navigational equipment and sabotaged it, so it kept giving false readings. Knowing that, would you follow what it says?
No, you would need a more accurate way to tell direction. So you look to the sky instead, and read the position of the sun, moon and stars, because you know that doesn't change. This way, you find your way into port, and there you can have your equipment repaired.
It's the same with us sometimes, with feelings. We get damaged for one reason or another in life, and our feelings become warped. We interpret things inaccurately, because that's the way it feels, and if we go by those feelings, we end up way off course - just as the enemy who sabotaged us wants.
Instead, when our feelings are messed up, we need to turn to the unchanging Word of God. It never fails. God has exalted His Word above even His Name, and He has declared that His Word will stand forever.
That Word says you are loved. It says that if you place your trust in the Name of Jesus, you will be saved. It says He will never leave nor forsake you, and that is true no matter how it feels, for indeed, it also says that in the world we will have tribulation.
The sooner you can stop chasing feelings, and start standing on the Word of God, the sooner you will start gaining the power to walk right out of the bondage this world put you in, and onto higher ground. There is no limit to how high we can go in the Lord, but it all rests on faith.
Hold fast to the Lord Jesus. Trust in His love no matter what. It will be a protection for your soul.
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13)True love from God is not so much what we feel but knowing his promise and believing it. Nothing describes Gods love like 1 Corinthians 13. It is that He is there when we are not, He is there when we are weak etc etc. I suggest a regular reading of this as a reminder.. There are times we feel God's love as we witness something in our lives but God's love is not as the world knows love, it is Agape Love. Lilly, maybe in time and through scripture you can see God loves you, meanwhile I would just ask that you trust that He does even though you can't feel anything.
Agreeing with you in prayer before God at the moment my sister, just wish I wasn't on the other side of the planet at the moment.thank you all for replying sorry i deleted most of what i said am scared right now i have a lot of fear as my life has been all about fear if i tell you all something i hope you will able to forgive me and understand that what i have is a sickness mentally where i can do things in my own way and not mean it badly
my family where neglectful my mother drank because of pain of losing her babies that she lost she drank and and drank and never really cared for me and my sister thought that time looked after me and when i was 13 she was 16 she went to live with an older man and abandoned me my bio father abandoned me also and my mum and step dad where too lost in there grief for the little ones lost i was abandoned by everyone i know i started make self injuring and make up stories about how i had cuts on my hand says i was in hospital etc as the years went on lies apon lies stories on stories lies where a comfort i got so use to doing it it has become my trick i could play on people and stop them abandoning me but then people would go and leave me even as an adults lies made things better lies made thing easyer i was interesting and poor me people felt sorry for me and the more i told the more people where there for me
i then met a man who i care about a lot told him lies too to keep him here been lieing everyday of my life its seems then thiings came from my sister that we had been abused as children this i have no memory off but one of my lies was that i was abused so i guess am deserving what i got my step dad killed himself 6 years ago and he abandoned me my mum and sister and her children all love him and cant get over his death i cant get over his death years before my step dad death i was given the diagnosed of Borderline personality Disorder and i was also diagnosed with Ocd etc i cant go out the house without my husband because am a danger to myself and others i take panic attacks and i am suicidal most of the time or other times i self injure i am covered in scars and marks from hurting myself
i have gone from one faith to another trying to find the truth i have told myself that am going to hell no one else i keep thinking am going there for lying to everyone for most of my life i feel i lie all the time and i cant seem to stop you might all hate me i hate me so much its one of the reasons why i self injure or OD for punishment i am sorry i lie i know that its hard to forgive me am evil and should go to hell but now that i have told you all the truth i hope i can be forgiven i am been lying for so long i dont know where i can get help or what to do to be honest i feel like hurting myself right now but i want to feel the love of God of the holy spirit and of Jesus and love of others
i keep thinking i'll be abandoned again so scared to be on my own i hide this from everyone including my husband in the past i have tried to tell him but he says its just my mental health and that there is no forgiving needed
i feel bad and upset at myself please help me
Does Jesus feel your love.edit ...sorry
Piece of cake. Jesus loves you so much, and has already paid the price of forgiveness in full.i hope i can be forgiven