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Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Hmmmm! You think YOU are exempt? Get serious. You think life is hard for you? Why is it harder than mine. I don't know where God came from either. So what? Who cares? Point is He is there. And more important is for me to worry about where I will spend eternity, than where God came from!
 
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wow.... honestly I thought the same thing just this afternoon..........
though I didn't feel real bad or anything........why go on.
1) God can heal you and you can rock this life with him.
2) no matter how often ýou fall he will love you and restore you and
show you his love in all its awesomeness :)
3) there are people who care for you...including me..
do you know that God's heart breakes with yours ??
4) no matter if you can believe it or not..he has a wonderful plan
for YOUR life and wants to use you
and if you don't desire hope, ask him to give you a desire for HIM.
5) Jesus won 2000 years ago for you..if you understand it or not,
you're not loosing when you're a child of God.
about where God came from......
someone once told me a story about erm little 'animals' on a sheet of paper. They only know to dimensions, like left and right.
Now tell them where rain comes from.
They won't know what you're talking about when you tell them it comes from 'above', you could tell them like it somes from right, but that'd only be a little part of the truth. God has more dimensions than we understand..hope that helps you a bit :) eternety is something we can't get into our heads..doesn't mean its not logical or true.
God Bless ya bro ..still praying :) Love ya so please keep it going....
Jesus at the end of the tunnel
 
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Great post, GoDowNsMe!



broken mach1ne,

You know, the Bible says "choose life". Sometimes we need to be reminded that no one can MAKE us choose life. We must seek help from others, but we must also be willing to have hope. We must be willing to get up and try again. It doesn't matter how many times we are knocked down. What matters is how many times do we get up and try again.

You have to be willing to at least consider that your thinking is not right. There is a therapy called "cognitive therapy", that is designed to instill better thought processes. I hope you will check into it, because it can really open your mind to how incorrect thinking can send you into that downward spiral. But again, it is up to you. You must be willing to try. It takes alot of courage to choose life and choose to change your thought processes, so grab yourself some courage!:) :angel:
 
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broken machine-

I don't think we are supposed to understand everything. Mainly because we are the creation and God is the creator. God is outside any limits our human mind can put on time. He is on a whole different level then we are. When we try to put God into our own constraints, it just doesn't work.

But He does give us enough that we can understand His love for us and how He desires a relationship with us. My heart goes out to you broken and I will be praying that you seek the help that you so much need. Just don't give up! This too shall pass. There are so many things in this life that we can not answer. But that doesn't mean we should stop living it. God will reveal what we need to know in His time and in His way. Just seek Him, broken, and let Him heal you so you won't be broken anymore!
 
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Originally posted by wvmtnkid
broken machine-

I don't think we are supposed to understand everything. Mainly because we are the creation and God is the creator. God is outside any limits our human mind can put on time. He is on a whole different level then we are. When we try to put God into our own constraints, it just doesn't work.

But He does give us enough that we can understand His love for us and how He desires a relationship with us. My heart goes out to you broken and I will be praying that you seek the help that you so much need. Just don't give up! This too shall pass. There are so many things in this life that we can not answer. But that doesn't mean we should stop living it. God will reveal what we need to know in His time and in His way. Just seek Him, broken, and let Him heal you so you won't be broken anymore!

This is so true.  No one can understand God!  We are not suppose to, if we understand, then we wouldn't need God as much, or wouldn't turn to Him as much.  In proverbs it says "not to lean on your own understanding", that is part of faith, believing without seeing.  Turn to Him and He will give you EVERYTHING you will ever need. 
 
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