Thank you Reese, I appreciate it bro. I wish you all the best for your future, may God guide and bless you
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I just want to say @EyesOfKohl that I respect you and your faith enormously. And I can see from your posts here that you're deeply committed to your beliefs. (Respect being the deepest)
I won't be popular for saying that, but I'll respect anyone who has the respect for themselves to speak out about what they believe in. And then stand by it.
Sorry, I cant speak for PTL but praying for someone that will get out of the car, come up on a person and attack them is assault not "corrective actions".I don't know what kind of environment you grew up in.
But if young people are out of line, they would get a clip around the ears and told off by either their parents or others if the parents are absent.
This generation is a weak one without discipline.
You are talking about assault, I'm talking about corrective actions against wrong doing.
Stop that, Wayholka. DON'T say that. If life weren't so precious to God then it wouldn't be all that we have here on planet Earth in the span of 70 or so years. I'm not saying that you aren't having as hard of a time in reality as you think you are; I know your daily life must be more difficult to cope with than the typical human being, considering your situation as you have given us glimpses of through your posts. But still, please, don't ever think like this, asking God to make it so that your life is over. There is a hope and promise of immortal life with Him one day for those who believe in Him, but for now, I firmly believe this life is all we've got, and you never truly know just how much your life - even if it seems worthless and miserable to you sometimes - might mean to others who are in it, and how much they might miss you.
Still, I will pray for you. Please keep your chin up.
I am glad to hear that, Nicole.
EDIT: But as to insight, well, this probably won't count for much, but ... In a way, haven't we already been set free the moment we confessed Jesus Christ and He saved us? At least set free from the worst thing of all, the inevitable wages of sin, death. We still experience death here in our Earthly lives, yes, but at least in that death as we sleep we still have the hope of a resurrection unto life eternal, yes? In the second death - the utter destruction of body and soul, all that we are - there is no hope, as it appears to be the utter end, thus it really is the only death that can truly hurt us in my personal opinion. But THAT, we are free from upon accepting Christ as Savior. ^-^
But if you mean set free from the troubles we still face here in mortal life, well, unfortunately, I doubt that can ever truly be reached 100%, at least if you mean absolute perfection. But we certainly can get as close to that highest potential of freedom from sin and brokenness as God wills, if we just keep our eyes on Him while we still live on Earth in our imperfect, sinful forms. But until the day all things are made new, the heavens and earth and all within, I fear it can never be totally, 100% free for us. We'll just have to be patient, I guess.
I wonder what it's like to be able to drink grape juice, eat a cookie, and listen to a soft, female voice tell you a simple story, and for that to be enough for your mind to think "That's enough. I'm happy."
What? Lol.
You've never been around children before?
You've never been around children before?
It's not a nice feeling as I thought they were friends and it wasn't just based on what you believe. It seems I must have thought there was something more when really there wasn't.
Why should I stop saying that? God made me a messed up person, put me in a messed up family, made me grow up in a messed up town during messed up times. Quite frankly I'm just sick of the life God has given me.
Right now it's reached a boiling point where there is incredibly high tension in my family. My mother's neuroticism has reached a boiling point and she wants to throw me out of the house again knowing that I'm suffering from physical health problems that prevent me from working or support myself on my own and the fact that they're messing around with my meds that's causing me to have a short fuse. The only thing stopping that is my step father who also recognizes that my mother needs professional help and it's going to be weeks until she meets a doctor to see what can be done. Every time we point out her behavior she just puts up all these walls and make everyone one of us the bad guy.
I really don't want to live with my real father because his house is like the one you see in the reality show, 'Hoarders'. It's so messy and cluttered up that I can barely take a step anywhere. There are bugs crawling there and the house is falling apart. Despite that his current girlfriend has done wonders in reforming him, it doesn't change the fact that he had three previous wives who left him because of his alcoholism. I'm afraid he'll eventually go back to drinking booze and then take things out on me if I were to move to another province with him later this year.
I really wish I could get my own place. Problem is that here in my town, our economy relies heavily on oil and gas and apartment owners in my town seem to think that everyone works those jobs where they get $40/hour. A one bedroom apartment alone costs $1,200 and they can jack up the prices whenever they want by however much they want. Again, because I'm out of work due to dizzy spells, I can't make the extra money to do so.
My life has been one trial after another and all I get is people crapping all over me for not having the good life they have. A lot of people here seem to think that they're self made successful people but in reality, they just got more of God's grace than others. Unfortunately God doesn't love us all the same that way. Hard work alone doesn't get you anywhere, your genes, health, environment, upbringing, opportunities and dumb luck also plays key roles in it.
I'm just sick of being a monkey on a unicycle for God's entertainment. I just want to end my life and enjoy retirement in Heaven. It perplexes me why Christians are so afraid to die even though they are confident in their salvation in Jesus.
I am just sick of life.
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