I Never Feel Sincere

[BeccaLynn]

I never feel like I'm being sincere when I pray or with many things in my life. It's just as if I go through the motions. I don't feel like I mean it when I pray to be saved, when I tell God I give Him my life, and especially when I say that I repent for sin. I don't feel anything within me is truly genuine. I don't even feel like I can sincerely love God or others. Does anyone else know what I mean and is this ocd?

Thanks so much for anyone's help.

Rebecca

 

[Willie T]

How small can you take your prayers? I mean, what's the most minute and thoroughly distilled concept you can reduce one single prayer to?

Look at your right thumb. Work it up and down. Sideways. Slide it around inside your palm. Think of all it does for you in a day. Touch it to each of the other fingers on your right hand. Now touch your left hand with it. Your face. Your head.. hair, ears, teeth. Scratch your foot with it.

Now tell God about that thumb All about it. The many ways you use it all the time. And why you are so happy He gave it to you. Thank Him for the thumb. After all, it WAS a gift from God.

Go ahead. It should take you several minutes, at least. Be serious about it. Get down, and REAL.

If you did all I asked you to, you just prayed to God about something pretty important to you. Does praying seem any different to you right now?

If it does....... sit and think about WHY that might be.

HINT: You weren't trying to pray about the entirety of life in one prayer. You just honestly and seriously talked to God about a true, simple feeling you experienced.

 

[Willie T]

Read this post six minutes after finishing the exercise above.

You're looking at your thumb again, aren't you? See? The prayer meant something to you.