Everyone, I watched a great sermon today and I've feeling two Bible verses pressed on my heart.
The verse about fools being right in their own eyes, Proverbs 12:15 and the verse where Paul encourages his readers not to go beyond what is written 1 Cor 4:6
I feel that God has shown me that I don't need to listen to OCD because it's demands are not in the Bible and God would never contradict His own word! So that means I just go off what the Bible says and not add more regulations. Such a freeing thing! I also need to listen to wise counsel because I don't know very much and it is arrogance of me to assume I know more than those who are nature Christians by listening to my fears.
This is a great gift from God! I don't have to listen to these "voices" anymore. I also must remember not to grow complacent and forget I have a disease and slip back into my own ways. Its going to be a fight but it's worth it to follow God correctly. Hope this helps someone else too!
I recently spoke to someone very wise about the nature of scrupulosity, she told me that we all have weaknesses that are used against us by the devil to keep us back, not that we ocders are possessed but that we are just like everyone else. Some people have a proclivity to lust, to be violent, to be drunkards and some of us have a proclivity to be worriers and overly pious. The devil uses each of these weaknesses against us, she says, to keep us from doing what God wants us to by making us stumble and never move forward. That helped me put it into perspective, and made me feel okay fighting against this disease because if its goal is to separate me from God or it's being used for that purpose then I must wage war against it! When I was looking at this disease as purely a mental illness that wasn't being used against me, I didn't see it as a threat to my relationship with God and was tempted to just let it be, to avoid rocking the boat so to speak. Now I see it as something that must be defeated.
The verse about fools being right in their own eyes, Proverbs 12:15 and the verse where Paul encourages his readers not to go beyond what is written 1 Cor 4:6
I feel that God has shown me that I don't need to listen to OCD because it's demands are not in the Bible and God would never contradict His own word! So that means I just go off what the Bible says and not add more regulations. Such a freeing thing! I also need to listen to wise counsel because I don't know very much and it is arrogance of me to assume I know more than those who are nature Christians by listening to my fears.
This is a great gift from God! I don't have to listen to these "voices" anymore. I also must remember not to grow complacent and forget I have a disease and slip back into my own ways. Its going to be a fight but it's worth it to follow God correctly. Hope this helps someone else too!
I recently spoke to someone very wise about the nature of scrupulosity, she told me that we all have weaknesses that are used against us by the devil to keep us back, not that we ocders are possessed but that we are just like everyone else. Some people have a proclivity to lust, to be violent, to be drunkards and some of us have a proclivity to be worriers and overly pious. The devil uses each of these weaknesses against us, she says, to keep us from doing what God wants us to by making us stumble and never move forward. That helped me put it into perspective, and made me feel okay fighting against this disease because if its goal is to separate me from God or it's being used for that purpose then I must wage war against it! When I was looking at this disease as purely a mental illness that wasn't being used against me, I didn't see it as a threat to my relationship with God and was tempted to just let it be, to avoid rocking the boat so to speak. Now I see it as something that must be defeated.
