Why am I happier when I forget about God?

[Ben Collyer]

Last week I pretty much spend the whole week just socialising and battling with my social anxiety. and I felt comfortable in social situations and was enjoying other peoples company. but that week I didnt read my bible, pray, or anything. and I also was falling back into sinful habits of the past...but my self confidence and happyness was never better...but I eventually started to feel "cold" inside and I felt I needed to sit down and confess...even though part of me didnt want to...well...as soon as I confessed I was overwhelmed with feelings of anxiety and depression....

Guys, why is it that I am happy when I forget about God?

 

[angeltrue]

Last week I pretty much spend the whole week just socialising and battling with my social anxiety. and I felt comfortable in social situations and was enjoying other peoples company. but that week I didnt read my bible, pray, or anything. and I also was falling back into sinful habits of the past...but my self confidence and happyness was never better...but I eventually started to feel "cold" inside and I felt I needed to sit down and confess...even though part of me didnt want to...well...as soon as I confessed I was overwhelmed with feelings of anxiety and depression....

Guys, why is it that I am happy when I forget about God?

That's tough for someone on the outside to determine although one can share their own experiences. Have you tried keeping a journal? I've found that helps me keep in touch with myself/ my relationship with God.

I recall another believer told me the same thing years back - maybe satan attacks less when you're not actively growing and a threat to him - I don't know; I lost touch with her so I never knew what happened with her.

I'm a shy person - definitely not a social butterfly! But I did read something interesting that probiotics actually have a strong affect you - lack of specific strains creates anxiety.

I hope you'll figure it out - I think a journal would help. I'm researching them now to make one in Word.

 

[Sanoy]

We need to grow our spirit, through scripture and prayer, but we also have a body. We are human and have needs. We need social interaction, we need the company of others, we need to rest... We clip our nails, we wash ourselves, we eat and drink, but we also have to take care of our minds as well as our spirit. As a dualistic creature we have to grow and maintain our being in balance between the spirit and the body. The race is a marathon, if you sprint your body will fail before the finish line. You have to jog at a pace your will and body can handle.

I don't think you are happy when you forget about God, I think you may just be happy because you are receiving your other needs. (minus the sinful habits you mention) God wants us to grow spiritually, but he created us as humans, and we glorify Him when we live our lives as the complete being He made us to be.

 

[Monna]

Ben, I admire your honesty.

but I eventually started to feel "cold" inside and I felt I needed to sit down and confess...

Reality comes back eventually to smack us in the face.

What is happiness to you? How would you describe it as a feeling? What things make you 'happy?' Is your happiness permanent? - it doesn't sound like it.

why is it that I am happy when I forget about God?

Why do substance abusers abuse? People get high on all sorts of stuff and I suppose for many reasons, one of them is to "get happy" and another is "to escape" from reality. But this is always temporary.

This doesn't really answer your question. I can postulate many things, but only you can know for sure, and you can only do that if you dig within. Maybe you need someone you trust, to help you dig (without doing the digging themselves).

Whatever the result of your digging, try to be thankful to God. Count your blessings and give the credit for them to God. Do this as often as you can through the day. I find that there is a different kind of happiness that comes almost automatically with gratitude. And smile a lot! Research shows that smiling, especially at other people, increases a sense of happiness.

I pretty much spend the whole week just socialising and battling with my social anxiety. and I felt comfortable in social situations and was enjoying other peoples company.

Why can't you do this without thinking about God? Why does it seem to be either people or God? God is very sociable - that's why he made us the same way?

 

[Beloved2018]

I get similar feelings at times. I've come to realize for me, that this is a part of my OCD and that it isn't God, but unconscious baggage I carry around about God that steals the freedom and joy I should have. Sometimes all this baggage is so wrapped up with my prayer life or church life, that to pray or go to church or to confess this or that sin is a dead, legalistic, depressive experience for me.

 

[NothingIsImpossible]

Easy. Sin is awesome! I know your like "Un, how could even say something like that!". Well I'm saying it how the devil tells it to us.

Theres plenty of "joy" in the world if we put aside God. Its all sinful joy but the devil knows we struggle at times and that we tend to enjoy the "worldly" things. Money, movies, sex, games, idols...etc.

The question is are you enjoying something that maybe you shouldn't? Something that is a sin or at least Jesus would not do? If you are enjoying that thing then there may be a bigger issue. Because usually as christians we should be feeling guilt or even an urge to avoid those things.

 

[Kit Sigmon]

Scripture reveals this about Moses:
Hebrews 11:24 "By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused
to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt:
for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward."

We aren't very different from Moses, whom enjoyed "self being in charge" and
the "pleasures of sin" for a season.

Galatians 6:8
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

 

[Beloved2018]

Guys, I don't think you are hearing him. He said he deals with social anxiety and that when he confessed he was overwhelmed with feelings of anxiety and depression.

 

[SolomonVII]

Last week I pretty much spend the whole week just socialising and battling with my social anxiety. and I felt comfortable in social situations and was enjoying other peoples company. but that week I didnt read my bible, pray, or anything. and I also was falling back into sinful habits of the past...but my self confidence and happyness was never better...but I eventually started to feel "cold" inside and I felt I needed to sit down and confess...even though part of me didnt want to...well...as soon as I confessed I was overwhelmed with feelings of anxiety and depression....

Guys, why is it that I am happy when I forget about God?

Actually, it doesn't sound like you ended up feeling happiness. You ended up feeling "cold".

Anxiety and depression are signs that you believe at a basic, even unconscious level, to be unwilling or unable to forgive your sins. What you are left with is not the peace of Christ, through forgiveness, but the anxiety and depression that comes from a guilty conscience.

 

[Ben Collyer]

Why can't you do this without thinking about God? Why does it seem to be either people or God? God is very sociable - that's why he made us the same way?

If im socialising with a human being and enjoying their company, I am enjoying THEM and not GOD.

its like saying that when you hang out with your friend steve, you are enjoying your friend Todd, nope, you are enjoying your friend steve

 

[SkyWriting]

Last week I pretty much spend the whole week just socialising and battling with my social anxiety. and I felt comfortable in social situations and was enjoying other peoples company. but that week I didnt read my bible, pray, or anything. and I also was falling back into sinful habits of the past...but my self confidence and happyness was never better...but I eventually started to feel "cold" inside and I felt I needed to sit down and confess...even though part of me didnt want to...well...as soon as I confessed I was overwhelmed with feelings of anxiety and depression....

Guys, why is it that I am happy when I forget about God?

We were designed by God to be social. Over time you figure
out how to do both things together. At first many people end
up preachy. That can last for decades.

 

[Beloved2018]

If im socialising with a human being and enjoying their company, I am enjoying THEM and not GOD.

its like saying that when you hang out with your friend steve, you are enjoying your friend Todd, nope, you are enjoying your friend steve

The two are not the same. Todd didn't create Steve in his image. All your friends however are created in the image of God.

 

[Antig]

It is amazing to feel different when we step out of a routine. Routines can make one bored etc. But, we need stability in our lives.

I for one never pray like i should. I dont read the Bible. But, i love God! Yet, i sin so much too!

The devil wants us to break away from God. God wants us to be close to Him but also to live our lives. Its all about finding a happy medium but one that puts God first!

 

[Beloved2018]

Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 1 Jn 4:20
Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these, you did for me. Matt 25:45

There are more..but see how God identifies Himself with His people. From the very beginning, He identifies Himself as, 'The God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob'. So don't be anxious about having to choose between God and His people, 'For in him we live and move and have our being' Acts 17:28

 

[Cat Loaf You]

You are happy when you don't think about God because man's hearth is evil and world is evil so it matches .

Matthew 7:11-12
Jeremiah 17:9

 

[Beloved2018]

You are happy when you don't think about God because man's hearth is evil and world is evil so it matches .

Matthew 7:11-12
Jeremiah 17:9

Ben is a redeemed Christian. His heart belongs to Christ.

 

[Arthur B Via]

Last week I pretty much spend the whole week just socialising and battling with my social anxiety. and I felt comfortable in social situations and was enjoying other peoples company. but that week I didnt read my bible, pray, or anything. and I also was falling back into sinful habits of the past...but my self confidence and happyness was never better...but I eventually started to feel "cold" inside and I felt I needed to sit down and confess...even though part of me didnt want to...well...as soon as I confessed I was overwhelmed with feelings of anxiety and depression....

Guys, why is it that I am happy when I forget about God?

God tells us that following Him is not easy, but it is fulfilling and very joyful my friend. Get deep into His Word and you'll see... God bless you...

 

[Mountainmanbob]

Guys, why is it that I am happy when I forget about God?

That would be something to seriously work on. For the Bible tells us to seek God with all of our hearts. I think we all fall short there but, we need to constantly get back on track so as to finish the good race.

Best not to listen to the devil the world or our flesh, they will only lead us into the wrong direction.

M-Bob

 

[Arthur B Via]

That would be something to seriously work on. For the Bible tells us to seek God with all of our hearts. I think we all fall short there but, we need to constantly get back on track so as to finish the good race.

Best not to listen to the devil the world or our flesh, they will only lead us into the wrong direction.

M-Bob

Well said...

 

[Brotherly Spirit]

Try changing your perspective of God from what you expect. Keep the big picture in mind, but don't let the little things harden your heart. What causes us to worry is obsessing all the way to the tiniest thing, making a big deal of it; when you let things go it's a burden lifted off your shoulders.

Just live more faithfully and less legalistically; you don't need be ritualistic about your relationship with God, but committed while also living your life. It requires you to find a balance, simply listening to him when he calls you to come with him and go when he sends you into the world. A great part of being a Christian is having faith to let go of him and trust he'll be there when needed.