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I just want to live a life full of love and joy....i want to love and worship God for the rest of my being...i want to reach my full potential of who I am in Jesus..its my life..but like I said I think it's too lateWell, Jennifer. That's a great question. Once a believer understand how they are justified in Christ. Then and only then can they live to God. Which is the third use of the Law. The commandments are a guide for christian living. Our Faith in Christ worketh through love.
The fact that you recognise your own sinfulness is a sign of healthy growth in grace. People who are not growing in the Lord don't have your consciousness of shortcoming and failure. It is that very sense of shortcoming that causes you to seek God with even more passion. This is why you are permitted to feel the way you do. It is to get you to the feet of Christ at God's throne of grace. The Christian life is not all happy happy clap clap. If some people appear that way and never share their weaknesses and faults, then you can know that there is something in their lives (like pride, jealousy, envy, religiousity) that is hindering their growth in grace. The scripture says that when you are weak, then God is strong in you.I just want to grow
Thank you...The fact that you recognise your own sinfulness is a sign of healthy growth in grace. People who are not growing in the Lord don't have your consciousness of shortcoming and failure. It is that very sense of shortcoming that causes you to seek God with even more passion. This is why you are permitted to feel the way you do. It is to get you to the feet of Christ at God's throne of grace. The Christian life is not all happy happy clap clap. If some people appear that way and never share their weaknesses and faults, then you can know that there is something in their lives (like pride, jealousy, envy, religiousity) that is hindering their growth in grace. The scripture says that when you are weak, then God is strong in you.
You can be in tears over your shortcomings and failures and your heart can be crying out to God for assurance and comfort, while God and the angels are rejoicing over you. Another person can always be cheerful, without a care in the world, and God could be weeping over him.Thank you...
Wow, Oscar, good stuff!The fact that you recognise your own sinfulness is a sign of healthy growth in grace. People who are not growing in the Lord don't have your consciousness of shortcoming and failure. It is that very sense of shortcoming that causes you to seek God with even more passion. This is why you are permitted to feel the way you do. It is to get you to the feet of Christ at God's throne of grace. The Christian life is not all happy happy clap clap. If some people appear that way and never share their weaknesses and faults, then you can know that there is something in their lives (like pride, jealousy, envy, religiousity) that is hindering their growth in grace. The scripture says that when you are weak, then God is strong in you.
No matter our past (I know I'd like to forget it), we're are new creations in Christ. Don't worry about being righteous Jennifer, believe that you are more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus our Lord. That faith will set you free in Him. God blessI know I'm not righteous. But the problem is I don't think I ever will be. I Iived/live a terrible sinful life. Looking back on all my sins I feel disgusted with myself. I feel like I could have done better. I'm so confused with being on the right path. I think it's too late for me. I think I'm going to hell . There's no justification. (Wisdom is justified by her deeds) I want to be a true Christian. Nah I just want to be real.. i don't want to be a hypocrite....the fire is there. I know I love the Lord. I just don't know who I am anymore.. or how to be righteous...and live for the Lord...i have the fire in me though...the passion to live for the Lord is there..i read my bible sometimes though some of the stuff in there is too much for me to comprehend. And I forget a lot. I don't pray much. I never really lived that Christian lifestyle. You know. But I always claimed that I love God. Though my actions never really showed it....and I guess I'm starting to wake up and see that I'm not living right. I guess my question is how does one become righteous or live truly for the Lord?
What you are not is free from sin.I know I'm not righteous. But the problem is I don't think I ever will be. I Iived/live a terrible sinful life. Looking back on all my sins I feel disgusted with myself. I feel like I could have done better. I'm so confused with being on the right path. I think it's too late for me. I think I'm going to hell . There's no justification. (Wisdom is justified by her deeds) I want to be a true Christian. Nah I just want to be real.. i don't want to be a hypocrite....the fire is there. I know I love the Lord. I just don't know who I am anymore.. or how to be righteous...and live for the Lord...i have the fire in me though...the passion to live for the Lord is there..i read my bible sometimes though some of the stuff in there is too much for me to comprehend. And I forget a lot. I don't pray much. I never really lived that Christian lifestyle. You know. But I always claimed that I love God. Though my actions never really showed it....and I guess I'm starting to wake up and see that I'm not living right. I guess my question is how does one become righteous or live truly for the Lord?
John 13:1-17I just want to live a life full of love and joy....i want to love and worship God for the rest of my being...i want to reach my full potential of who I am in Jesus..its my life..but like I said I think it's too late
But what are you striving toward is the question. Because my point is I have personally seen how when I just focus on Jesus and fill myself more with Him and His Word, he begins to CAUSE convictions, he begins to orchestrate events that LEAD me out of my sin.
I don't strive myself against the sin, I strive to stay ever present in Jesus and keep my mind on holy things, this causes the sanctification to just happen and I fully believe it's God leading it. When I have tried to strive against my sin in the sense that I was doing my best to stop all bad habits and watch myself, I didn't feel connected to Jesus, I felt like a hopeless basket case. It's turning it over to Him, and fixating on Him, that I see ACTUALLY start removing sins from my life.
And then I tend to just trust more because I realize it's only God who could get me there anyway, no striving in that direction from me is gonna help, I'm pretty useless at willing myself out of sin. But I can will myself toward Jesus and watch Him take care of it in His time.
I really really wish I knew what God really thinks of me.
I feel like I really messed up this time. I'm scared and there's no one to talk to about this. I dont have any friends..but..I don't want anyone to pity me or feel sorry for me. I just want to know why this is happening to me.. it makes me feel like i'm a really bad person.
Because he is my only hope ..and everything he is what makes me who I am in Jesus..i feel like death right now..why am I being punished? Why do I feel so much pain and heartache? How can I fix this?
I know I should forgive myself but it's hard sometimes especially when you know youre being punished by God. And i am being punished. You just dont know. And It just breaks my heart.
I am very dependant of God. He is all i ever depend on. I just slipped away somehow. I did some terrible things which im not proud of. I know I should forgive myself but it's hard sometimes especially when you know youre being punished by God. And i am being punished. You just dont know. And It just breaks my heart.
Whether I'm being punish by him... It breaks my heart.I wonder if you are right to be so sure that you are being punished by God for your sins, Jennifer ? Psalm 99 (100) certainly suggests the possibility, as the Psalmist wrote :
Among his priests were Aaron and Moses,
among those who invoked his name was Samuel
They invoked the Lord and he answered.
To them He spoke in the pillar of cloud.
They did his will ; they kept the law,
which He, the Lord, had given.
O Lord our God, you answered them.
For them you were a God who forgives ;
yet you punished all their offences.
But your punishment may have ended long ago, your suffering now being mostly redemptive - and largely for the sake of others. 'Whom the Lord loveth, He chastiseth.'
I do find it interesting though that even when the Psalmist is entreating God to save him from the snares and machinations of the many cruel and malign enemies persecuting him, he asks God to forgive him for his own sinfulness at the same time. Perhaps, you should ask God to help you to forgive yourself.
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