take time out for yourself...its healthy.

[endure]

well i would like to say i have learned something in the last 24 hours that if i had known before, i would not have said some of things i have.

i learned that God doesnt ask us to give up EVERYTHING for the cause.

and what i mean is that he doesnt mind us simply taking time out to pleasure ourselves, and i didnt know that... i really didnt.
and i didnt know that it was a vital part of being healthy mentally.

when the only thing you know is pain and sacrifice and forced neglect, its hard to love yourself. and when you cant hardly love yourself, its hard to be who God has called us to be.

if you we never take a rest so that we can relax and simply enjoy life and find pleasures, all we know is pain, sacrifice, neglect and suffering for a greater cause, and that seems noble.
but in the end, you lose touch with yourself, find no joy in life or in yourself and its hard to love yourself like you need to becuase all youve ever known was being forced to do things you didnt want to do and being pressed down.

we all know its easy to be really out going when we are in a really good mood and having lots of fun.

like, i thought God didnt want me to do anything pleasurable, just pray and read all day, but eventually it brought me to a place where i didnt know what simple pleasures were, and all i knew was neglect that i had put on myself, but all that neglect put me in pain, and all that for so long made me begin to think that was all i was worth, pain and suffering at other peoples expense.
so i was ashamed of myself, and didnt love myself.

but now, man... im going to take some time off to just enjoy life and experience pleasures, so i can please myself and enjoy life, and when i find myself happy and joyful, i discover myself and find what about me is worth being happy and confident over. that there is GOOD in me, and i need not to be ashamed of me, becuase me makes me happy.

i mean im still in to the cause of Christ, but also my portion as solomon said in ecclesiastes 5.
and i need need both.

 

[Im4HimiHs]

well i would like to say i have learned something in the last 24 hours that if i had known before.......
i learned that God doesnt ask us to give up EVERYTHING for the cause.....if you we never take a rest .......didnt love myself............ becuase me makes me happy. .....

God gave us a day of rest in the beginning. However, we sometimes get caught up in the hassels of daily life and neglect to take the time off from the things we do. God also will only ask us to do what we can handle, sometime we can not handle (at that time) being able to "give things up", but as we grow in Christ, He gives us the strength to overcome them.

Christ loves us and he tells us we are to love him as we love ourself. In the past I struggled with the concept of loving myself. "If God can love me, then why can't I love me?", "If God can forgive me, then why can't I forgive me?"
I thank God He was willing to accept me as I was, and through Him I can accept myself for who I am.

 

[looksgood]

LOL, glad you are coming into this endure. I just came into it not long ago myself. God showed me through scriptures and His spirit as well as the history of those who have followed God.

He showed me it is ok to have goals in your own life and that you go after them. He showed me that we do have desires and God is pleased with us going after them. All we have to do is keep in line with His word. In other words no lies to get that brand new car lol.

God blessed others in life with their desire because they went after them. But not only that we follow Him.

Joshua 1
7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Sounds like he is saying we go where we will and He is with us as long as we honor Him.
Psalm 1
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

It is ok to seek a blessing for yourself and rest from your trials. In fact it is a promise God gave. YIPY!!! ENDURE FOUND ANOTHER PROMISE!!! LOL

 

[invisiblebabe]

yep yep... sounds like somethin' i've learned over the past few years too.... and i'm learning it more and more...