Temptation to give up.

[jc9992]

Hi everyone i kind of have a question about something that might not be OCD.

As ive said before, for the past few months ive been going to church,reading the bible,praying everyday and ive really strengthened my walk with God.

Of course as most of you have experienced the OCD thoughts dont go away.The problem is that sometimes ill get thoughts like ....

"quit trying to be a better christian because your still gonna have OCD thoughts"or thoughts about giving up and such.

Is this the devil or OCD talking?I dont know if its OCD because having these thoughts causes me to spike rather than spiking with these thoughts.

So is this the devil telling me to give up or OCD?im not quite sure

 

[Heavenheart81]

Brother do not give up. I have the same problems. Just in different sayings and such.

I honestly dont think its satan. God has made it known to me that not everything is satan,
I believe that the devil can use our illnesses against us. But you have to remember we are sick, that is the truth of it.

And the truth of it is God never promised to heal us completly while we are here. But he did promise to give us strength, and to lift us up, and give us comfort.

We must have faith God will comfort us. With our doubts it can be hard but we must stay steadfast.

You can do this i have faith in you, youre in my prayers.

 

[jc9992]

i understand and i am actually not considering giving up.

I just get temptations every now and then to give up because as you know no matter what you do its nearly impossible to shake OCD.

 

[PARCmd]

I too have thoughts like that but I know it doesn't come from me because I despise that thought.

We really do not have a choice - we all know that the Bible is true and turning away from it would be absolute disaster - hence, we are only left with one logical choice - to stick with God.

We all know that the Devil also tries to use OCD to propagate his ideas and to doom people to hell or to Christians, the most he can do is to get them to backslide or something like that.

It's pretty clear in the Bible that you are just either against God or for God. Now, if we are not against God, then surely, we must be for God and that means that we are not condemned..

 

[jc9992]

We all know that the Devil also tries to use OCD to propagate his ideas and to doom people to hell or to Christians, the most he can do is to get them to backslide or something like that.

Yeah ,this is what im talking about temtation to give up on being a christian because OCD is so tiresome.

 

[kaykay637]

Yeah ,this is what im talking about temtation to give up on being a christian because OCD is so tiresome.

It IS tiresome, but it can get better the more you recognize it for what it is. my two cents anyway.