Lost in a doubt

[sidabrius]

Hello friends. I need your advice, please. I am nineteen years old and I am freshman in college. Past year I struggled a lot with life changes, depression and my faith. I was involved in church, my closest person, Mom, is a believer, faith turned her life around when she accepted it as a truth. She and other people had influence on me, but I didn't want to believe before questioning it and finding the real reasons. I became Christian half year ago, I learned the language Christians speak - what does mean one thing and other. Still, I had many questions, but I felt, that nothing in the life can be more real. I saw evidence all around. I came to college. It's been two weeks of studying textbooks of ancient history, psychology... and I came to understand so much deeper what is human nature and body is like. New things just opened up before my eyes. I am more cautious of what people say about their faith and feelings, what they think God does. Some people have like blind faith - that God affects their emotions, their life very closely, while I see just consequences of their own behavior, consequences of this life situations and their own psychological nature. I know and know that I have nothing more in this life but just faith. But now I am more conscious about the world and I came to crisis of faith - I need to understand more. I can tell you that I am struggling a lot, I am crying to God because He is my only hope. And I know that He acts and can change everything, but I don't know how he does that, how He affects us, how Holy Spirit heals our mind and body. (the though is just chemical reaction, right?). I know that He is but I need to find who he really is, what the Maker of this world is like. I know his goodness - all that good comes from him. And I am so thirst for that goodness. But I face a wall when I see my own blind faith before I came to college and others people too. I need prove, God! As I obeserve so many people here in college, how they perceive different, how they feel and think, see the world, what they enjoy and what not, how their brain's made one or another way that influence them to be the way they are. When I look to ancient history I see that true nature of people, how they have the same motives and wishes, how they practice religion (it was so disturbing when I read about religion evolution). I know that there is God, I know that. And about me - I feel very lonely, I have hard time creating personal relationships, often I am closed inside of myself, often I feel different. But though my highest wish is to love people, to be simple person, enjoy life and love God, live what He tells me to do. But I can't get through myself. I was thinking - if we can change ourselves, if our life environment forms us so different beings, situations, people can make us perceive everything differently, maybe I can take that step and trust God with all my life and heart, make him the center of my world and give him all I have, every thought of mine. I feel like falling on my knees and telling that God is my truth and I will live according to him, and trust him of everything. But I need reality. Or maybe I need to take a leap of faith. Please tell if you understand me. I know I am so skeptic but I can't be unaware of all I am learning and let myself feel the emotions and manipulate myself with some vision of hope.Can somebody guide me and explain me these things? Thank you so much!

 

[Quasicentennial]

Church is an important Christian action to witness the power of God's healing through Christians who accepted Christ as their permanent spiritual partner .:*:. Our earthly minds do not have the omniscient memory of Christ-minded believers in heaven right now who, I believe, can never forget .:*:. So many Christians in churches around the world and our normal minds do not have a sizeable memory to know them all except those few family and friends we meet often .:*:. Prayer meetings, home group bible lessons, street evangelism are some of the activities Christians do to move this world forward towards the powerful rise of Christianity, more powerful than Mormon and other religions, where the truth of the holy bible is fact and not fiction .:*:. Victory over Satan has already been won in Revelations so it is not possible that not many Christians would not do God's promise: to tell others about Jesus as his savior, the true Jesus of the holy bible .:*:.

 

[wayfaring man]

Jesus told His followers that if they had faith as a mustard seed they could command mountains to be cast into the sea .

He also said that the Kingdom of heaven was as a mustard seed , which starts off as something very small , but grows to be something very great .

Together these two sayings describe how we only need a tiny bit of faith to begin with , and when we act in the ways that faith inspires , then we experience the beauty and power of believing God and Christ ; this in turn causes our faith to grow , and through numerous applications and experiences our faith becomes great ... and it is at that point that we can command mountains . Many become frustrated when mountains don't budge , when they're still in the seedling stage of believing ... this is due to misunderstanding God's promise . The key to the mustard seed is it's viability , which means it is endowed with life . Likewise we are endowed with life , and we as the seed must grow , before we are able to be great .

Hope this is helpful to you .

Peace , good will + prayers in Christ ,

wm

 

[Christsdaughter]

Hello friends. I need your advice, please. I am nineteen years old and I am freshman in college. Past year I struggled a lot with life changes, depression and my faith. I was involved in church, my closest person, Mom, is a believer, faith turned her life around when she accepted it as a truth. She and other people had influence on me, but I didn't want to believe before questioning it and finding the real reasons. I became Christian half year ago, I learned the language Christians speak - what does mean one thing and other. Still, I had many questions, but I felt, that nothing in the life can be more real. I saw evidence all around. I came to college. It's been two weeks of studying textbooks of ancient history, psychology... and I came to understand so much deeper what is human nature and body is like. New things just opened up before my eyes. I am more cautious of what people say about their faith and feelings, what they think God does. Some people have like blind faith - that God affects their emotions, their life very closely, while I see just consequences of their own behavior, consequences of this life situations and their own psychological nature. I know and know that I have nothing more in this life but just faith. But now I am more conscious about the world and I came to crisis of faith - I need to understand more. I can tell you that I am struggling a lot, I am crying to God because He is my only hope. And I know that He acts and can change everything, but I don't know how he does that, how He affects us, how Holy Spirit heals our mind and body. (the though is just chemical reaction, right?). I know that He is but I need to find who he really is, what the Maker of this world is like. I know his goodness - all that good comes from him. And I am so thirst for that goodness. But I face a wall when I see my own blind faith before I came to college and others people too. I need prove, God! As I obeserve so many people here in college, how they perceive different, how they feel and think, see the world, what they enjoy and what not, how their brain's made one or another way that influence them to be the way they are. When I look to ancient history I see that true nature of people, how they have the same motives and wishes, how they practice religion (it was so disturbing when I read about religion evolution). I know that there is God, I know that. And about me - I feel very lonely, I have hard time creating personal relationships, often I am closed inside of myself, often I feel different. But though my highest wish is to love people, to be simple person, enjoy life and love God, live what He tells me to do. But I can't get through myself. I was thinking - if we can change ourselves, if our life environment forms us so different beings, situations, people can make us perceive everything differently, maybe I can take that step and trust God with all my life and heart, make him the center of my world and give him all I have, every thought of mine. I feel like falling on my knees and telling that God is my truth and I will live according to him, and trust him of everything. But I need reality. Or maybe I need to take a leap of faith. Please tell if you understand me. I know I am so skeptic but I can't be unaware of all I am learning and let myself feel the emotions and manipulate myself with some vision of hope.Can somebody guide me and explain me these things? Thank you so much!

Worldly wisdom is on the opposite side of the spectrum as God's wisdom. You will never understand God and spiritual matters with worldly wisdom, so don't try it. What wordly wisdom really does is give the credit that is due to God to humans. It is pride in disguise. There are lots of psychological/sociological/scientific theories that have been created by nonbelievers as an attempt to make sense of their world. As children of God, all we have to do is submit fully to Him and trust in Him. He is the source of all TRUE wisdom!

God Bless!

Christsdaughter

 

[Avniel]

Hey I went to college and I studied a lot of the samethings poli sci major. w/a minor in international studies and theology. So I learned a lot of different cultures. The funny thing is I have always looked at the science indirectly proving things in the bible. Take the medical field the bible tells us exactly how to quarantine contagious patients, and then historically the finding of Noahs arch. Let's look at nutrition we can eat meat now but look how deadly eating a pig can be? How could these people have known any of this unless it was divinely inspired by God.

 

[JadedSword]

Okay, instead of answers, which you badly thirst for, here are some rhetorical questions to get you looking in the better place where you can find answers for yourself.

1. You say you want to put God in the center of your life, yet don't know who God is. God is God. Everyone knows who God is. How can you put God in the center of your life if you do not realize God already is in the center of your life?

Food for thought. It requires a thoughtful answer you can find inside.

Really.

2. "Everybody says..." Everybody says. Everybody has no clue. Everybody is a liar. Everybody talks about what they do not know much about. Everybody believes what they want to believe. The truth? God is the truth, God alone is good, and the truth is good. Everything else is the lesser of two evils.

Psychology, modern science... useful, often, as things to mess around with. But if you get into the trap of the vanity these people are in you will find a dead end road fast. Jesus could heal the sick, raise the dead, give sight to the blind, and open the ears of the deaf. He did not need science.

These self-assured people are trotting around with their chests held out high, loaded up with oil of lies and disinformation. Sooner or later a match comes and the whole house goes up in smoke.

Do not let them confuse you.


The basic principles, the need to know, is spiritual. You are spiritual. You are in a disguise of flesh in the disguise of the material world.

The world is all designed to be instruments of metaphor, a global house for the spiritual.

The spiritual is of the substance of love.


The thing you need to know is love.

Love of spouse. The one you fall or fell in love with. (Apparently, some people claim they have never fallen in love, but I tend to think they are bad liars.)

Love of kids. Love of family. Love of neighbors.

Everything else is just background for the stories of love.


Don't get too caught up in it, unless it helps you in love.

But, here's the deal: go left, go right, go up, go down... you are on a one way escalator going up. All that you do is just as God has intended for you to do.