What to do?!?!?!?

[Proeliator]

I am here to ask for help. It seems as though all of my passion for the things of God has left me, and I am ambivalent towards it all. I go to church and can’t wait to leave, things like that. Reading has left my doings. I don’t know what to do.

 

[mlqurgw]

I am here to ask for help. It seems as though all of my passion for the things of God has left me, and I am ambivalent towards it all. I go to church and can’t wait to leave, things like that. Reading has left my doings. I don’t know what to do.

I have no advice for you but only want to tell you that you are not alone in this experience. Sometimes Our beloved draws His presense from us and we become cold and almost lifeless but He does return and the fellowship is so much sweeter for having gone through the experience. Imagine what John Newton was going through when he penned these words;

How tedious and tasteless the hours​

When Jesus no longer I see!

Sweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flowers,

Have all lost their sweetness to me.

The mid-summer sun shines but dim;

The fields strive in vain to look gay;

But when I am happy in Him,

December’s as pleasant as May.



His name yields the richest perfume,

And sweeter than music His voice;

His presence disperses my gloom,

And makes all within me rejoice:

I should, were He always thus nigh,

Have nothing to wish or to fear;

No mortal so happy as I;

My summer would last all the year.



Content with beholding His face,

My all to His pleasure resigned,

No changes of season or place

Would make any change in my mind;

While blest with a sense of His love,

A palace a toy would appear;

And prisons would palaces prove,

If Jesus would dwell with me there.



Dear Lord, if indeed I am Thine,

If Thou art my sun and my song,

Say, why do I languish and pine,

And why are my winters so long?

Oh, drive these dark clouds from my sky,

Thy soul cheering presence restore;

Or take me unto Thee on high,

Where winter and clouds are no more.





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[Elderone]

I am here to ask for help. It seems as though all of my passion for the things of God has left me, and I am ambivalent towards it all. I go to church and can’t wait to leave, things like that. Reading has left my doings. I don’t know what to do.

Everyday I ask God to please keep the desire for Him alive within me because, I believe, as with anything else we can be burned out. But then I'm an old coot and more susceptible to those things.
This is also part of Satans job description, try to make the people of God's family dissatisfied and backslide for a time.

Never forget, prayer is a Christians most powerfull tool.

Php 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

 

[cygnusx1]

My only advice is contemplate Jesus , think of Christ crucified ........ meditate upon what Jesus went through and why ..... consider His "doubts and fears" He was tempted in every way just as we are , consider Christ , meditate upon His Love for lost sinners and His free healing of the multitudes , put all your thoughts upon Him ............ you will see faith renewed and assurance replenished.


Do not look at yourself , do not go by feelings and do not be put off by Satan .


God Bless I pray you will find life in the midst of death.

Cygnus

 

[ghs1994]

I remember a church in Revelation, I believe it was Ephesus, that Christ had said to do the things they did in the beginning because they had forsaken their first love. Sometimes we can get so wrapped up in knowledge and reading and so forth that we end up quenching the Spirit a little bit. Time to rekindle the fire bro. It can be very tough cuz I've been thru it, but it comes down to knowing that you are His and humbling yourself at His mercy and grace. A helpless dependence on the King. God is faithful even when we're not.

 

[edie19]

I am here to ask for help. It seems as though all of my passion for the things of God has left me, and I am ambivalent towards it all. I go to church and can’t wait to leave, things like that. Reading has left my doings. I don’t know what to do.

Wish I had a brilliant answer, but I don't. This I know, as Christians we all go through dry spells (for lack of better terminology). I find that those are the times that we really need to immerse ourselves in God's word. God, in His grace and mercy, will draw us near to Him. Just as our conversion is 100% God, I believe that our continued growth and development, our Christian walk is 100% God.

I think part of the problem is what we're currently discussing in the feminization of the church thread. We hear about this "personal relationship with Christ." We talk about when we first loved Him and often compare it to human relationships. Then we want that relationship to be all hot and heavy all the time, but life isn't like that - not even our human relationships are like that (they wax and wane too).

Would I love to have the sense of wonder and awe I did when I was first converted - you bet. But I also realize that isn't how it works. I'd rather be confident in my knowledge of doctrine and know that it is Biblically based than be "passionate."

edie

 

[heymikey80]

I am here to ask for help. It seems as though all of my passion for the things of God has left me, and I am ambivalent towards it all. I go to church and can’t wait to leave, things like that. Reading has left my doings. I don’t know what to do.

Couple of things.

"Is the problem in thee or in me?" I've picked up a couple of things ... how about the "Part of the Problem" workbook? Check out your nearest Christian bookstore and see if you can peruse it.

What are you involved in? What ministry, what service? How is that involvement being affected by your feelings?

 

[JimfromOhio]

I had similar struggles over the years and still face them. This is Satan's way of attacking our relationship with God. Over the years, I have learned that I am not be looking at my inadequacies because obviously, they will always be there. I need to be looking at my adequacy in the Holy Spirit, which will always be in me. "Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."--Matt. 26:41. Maybe I am not the only one with spiritual selective hearing which means I only want to hear that benefits me because of my human nature rather than my spiritual nature. Biblically, Christians are no longer "in the flesh": "You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him" (Rom 8:9). "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." Galatians 5:25. The Holy Spirit dwells in me with all the power and gifts of God, necessary to enable me to walk the noble, spiritual, Son-like life with God. Its more about putting God first before myself and then God will give us eternal peace within me.

Not sure if this will help but this helped me.

 

[strengthinweakness]

Shadrach, could, perhaps, part of the reason for your current struggles be that you might be spending too much time on CF, and not enough time with God, whether in seeking Him in His word or in prayer ? Please understand-- I am not saying that this is or is not the case. I am not in the position to know. I'm just asking if that might be the case.

Recently, I have been dealing with some "spiritual malaise" myself, and I am certain that it is, paradoxically, due to how much time I spend on CF nightly. As a result, I have decided to drastically scale down my time here. I have realized that it is not best for me to converse for hours with other Christians on the internet if, in the process, I am sacrificing great amounts of precious time for Bible study and prayer (which are the primary means by which I can come to truly know God better). I will miss conversing with everyone, but simply put, my walk with God is suffering, and I have to follow what I know is the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Not that I'm completely leaving CF... I will still read messages and post from time to time... but I once read of A.W. Tozer that his walk with God was his top priority, and that he allowed nothing to interfere with it. I want to be that kind of man, and to that end, I know that I need to spend much less time at CF and more time in God's word and in prayer with Him.

 

[JJB]

Shadrach, I listened to a lesson yesterday on Mark 13, The Olivet Discourse. Within that chapter is some apocalyptic writing. Here are some points I recall vividly:

1. The Book of Revelation takes about 35 minutes to read and is the most simple to understand:

a. Things are going to get worse.
b. Hang in there.
c. God wins.