OCD & Unforgivable Sins

[Caty]

When I was younger I took stole a magazine and gave it to my friend, since then I've changed. The person really didn't like me but I was trying to buy their friendship and they don't like me now. I asked God for forgivness and I never want to do it again. But I keep having this thought that If I do not get that back from her and return it that God will not forgive me and I will go to hell. I know Jesus died for all my sins, but it seems like with OCD it's hard to let sins go. Is this my OCD ?

 

[Orville]

Why don't you just go the place where you stole the magazine and pay for it? Or take the money it would have cost and donate it to a worthy cause.

Maybe it isn't OCD but simply appropriate guilt. In fact maybe it would help if you took five or tens times the value of the magazine and gave the money to charity in an act of penance. Make things right and your obsession may just go away.

 

[Jayangel81]

While some people may say it is just OCD, perhaps it isnt. Maybe He does want you to go pay for it. or maybe something else...

When you ask God for forgivness you NEED to forgive yourself as well. Oftentimes guilt is what some of us call "left over baggage" from unforgivness in our own lives.

I guarentee most of the people on this forum even myself have problems with it. It causes us to be left with guilt when in truth God has cleansed us. But forgivness is a two-way street. You need to accept the forgivness as well.

If I were you, spend some personal time with God, and pray without ceasing on what He wants you to do, pick up your bible and read. God loves to talk through His Word

I pray that God reveals HIS Will for you

 

[Caty]

Thank you guys...I'll pray about it.