Who is in control? The past shows that I cannot control myself. I cannot keep a job or loose weight, exercise, make friends, maintain a relationship. I live in this world all alone. I live in fear, with a mind and body haunted by a past of drug and alcohol abuse. Permeated by current food addiction and other undesirable inadequacies. "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out." And God says "... my grace is sufficient for you, for my POWER is made perfect in weakness." “..for it is God Who works in (me) to will and act according to His good purpose.. If I belong to the Lord and Father, God, then he is in control. Then why is my life still a mess. Where is the will to live? The motivation to gain employment? The desire and ambition? The peace in the valley? The comfort in shadow of the valley of death. Has my God abandoned me? I have no answers, and I suspect anything you have to say will be of no comfort, for it is all futile.
2007-05-20
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