OCD is destroying my faith... HELP!

[kodadog1024]

Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5I mean, this says it all... Really.

 

[raven1]

This is an emotion. I have the emotion of doubt you cant change emotion that is why i think only certain people are chosen for faith. Faith is an emotion.

 

[kodadog1024]

This is an emotion. I have the emotion of doubt you cant change emotion that is why i think only certain people are chosen for faith. Faith is an emotion.

Really? Who told you that????

 

[raven1]

No one told me that. Faith is an emotion then actions follow from the result of that emotion.

 

[raven1]

When i never doubted. I had just the feeling God was there that emotion of knowing with no evidence.

 

[kodadog1024]

Maybe God is testing you. Maybe He wants to see you in action, regardless if you doubt or not...

 

[TheWorriedOne]

Anybody? Can someone answer my question?

 

[raven1]

Perhaps, unfortunately that doesnt help me in knowing my salvation is secure though.

 

[kodadog1024]

Ok so What do I do I've had like this vague worry unbelief thing and then I think if I don't worry about it I don't care about my relationship with God what am I supposed to do to keep my relationship with him now? I feel distant and like an unbeliever right now?

Just keep loving Him.

 

[kodadog1024]

Hey, check out this weeks sermon over at Elevation Church dot org (Living a Better Story).... Right up this alley.

 

[cmsracing]

Ok so What do I do I've had like this vague worry unbelief thing and then I think if I don't worry about it I don't care about my relationship with God what am I supposed to do to keep my relationship with him now? I feel distant and like an unbeliever right now?

YOU, don't do anything to keep your relationship with Him. That's His job. You give yourself too much credit, you don't have the power to keep your relationship with God. He has promised to keep your salvation safe and secure for you in Heaven.
And if you don't worry about your relationship with Him it doesn't mean you don't care. It's just the opposite, if you don't worry about it, it just means that you trust him to take care of it.

 

[patsyjean89]

I know exactly what your going through!! I went through a phase in my OCD where I doubted the existence of God! It scared me to death!! I can't be happy unless i know that God is with me because I need him so badly to help me get through daily struggles with OCD, plus I want to feel his presence and love!! it is so hard for me to feel God with my OCD because all i do is doubt EVERYTHING!!! its very hard! i will pray for you!

There is hope! I did get over that certain doubt however!

 

[TheWorriedOne]

Thanks you guys but I don't understand don't both parties have to do a little for there to be a relationship. I mean Atheists don't think about God how am I different from them?

 

[raven1]

You said you know it is ocd that makes you doubt right?

 

[raven1]

How did u get over that doubt patsy?

 

[TheWorriedOne]

I really dunno I'm not completely over it I dunno what's going on right now.

 

[raven1]

Huh? I am sorry dude. I dont know what I can do to help you. I dont know if I have my doubt is from ocd so i am trying to look at things as worse case scenario that it isnt ocd.

 

[TheWorriedOne]

I really don't know how to handle this right now it's not bothering me but it will eventually. Can someone answer my previous question?

 

[kodadog1024]

Thanks you guys but I don't understand don't both parties have to do a little for there to be a relationship. I mean Atheists don't think about God how am I different from them?

Because Atheists don't believe any God(s) exist. None. (and it doesn't bother them), unlike you or Raven , .... If you didn't care and wanted to be Atheists, you wouldn't be here on these boards, searching, looking, caring, wondering. Don't be be so dang hard on yourself. You both need to give this problem to God, trust Him, that He will "guide" you, protect you and "love" you. That is all you can do. Coming here, asking questions, upon questions, and seeking reassurance, only strengthens your fear. It solidifies it. You need to move with it, let it be and as hard as it may seem, let your fear/doubt be there, BUT also know that God loves you and you are in His clutches and nothing in Heaven, Hell or here will ever take you away from Him, because He is God.

 

[raven1]

Since i cant prove this is ocd. I am going to assume it is none related ocd related doubt. I only want to nelieve to avoid hell. This is pascals wager. I dont know if that is good though for God.