OCD and Laundry

[Hermit7]

Hi All,

I just had a thought in my mind while I was bringing up my finished laundry. I was walking up the stairs with a pile clothes in my arms. My nephew was by the stairs and the last thing I wanted was to slip and spill my laundry and possibly injure my nephew.

As I was going up the stairs when a thought came into my mind, "If God helps me go up the stairs without slipping, then He could take away my salvation."

Needless to say I didn't fall. Did I lose my salvation? Also, did I lose my salvation by logging in and posting this (and writing this)

-Hermit

 

[OCD=Owie]

Hermit, I think it's gotten to the point where we shouldn't be giving you yes or no answers to these types of questions. This is your OCD, and rather than seizing these thoughts that you might have lost your salvation, you should just ignore them. Let them go, and don't try to discern whether your saved or not saved because of them.

If you keep feeding these thoughts by giving them attention, then you're only going to keep getting more of them.

I know how it is man. This stuff is really hard. I know that it's not an easy thing to just let your scary thoughts go, but it's something that needs to be done one way or another. If you need to, you can just ease yourself into this behavior, and ignore only one thought, or only ignor it for a certain period of time or something.