I'm sorry I know this sounds bad, but sometimes I really get tired of Christianity. We are taught to smile and stay positive....just trust in Jesus they say, but take a look at the world we live in...its in total chaos. Sometimes it feels like God is not even there. I see countless situations where it seems as though evil wins over good. I'm told to pray, but half of the time the things I pray for come to pass after months of pray, if at all. And then I wonder did it happen by coincidence or did God actually answer my pray. I feel so bad saying some of this stuff because I truly believe I love God deep down inside. I guess I just needed to vent.
2006-09-21 13:54:13 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is perfecty fine, you may not understand a lot of what God intends to do. A lot of time you suffer because God is making you stronger. Its like a spoiled child, the spoiled child doesn't suffer because someone suffers for him. God doesnt want this and many times it can be tough, like the thought of evil always seeming to win over good. This world was meant to pass you by for a reason. Jesus was killed by the very people that were suppose to love him. This life is cruel but thats why theres more. We learn thru this life so that when we get to the next we dont take the next for granted. I know its tough but you will suffer, but having God allows you to handle that suffering and any obstacle ahead of you. God makes us stronger in the face of evil, it may seem like evil is winning, but God loves to act like the underdog when in reality the good in the end will become victorious...Stay STRONG!
2006-09-21 14:04:13 · answer #1 · answered by Murfdigidy 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Just remember the divider is always at work among God's people. Not to make you paranoid ( we laugh because we know the end of the story) but to remind you that fellowship in the Word and with other believers will strengthen you and your faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. The world, the flesh and the devil all work against that faith. Find fellowship with others who believe in God's Word. As far a prayers, it can take years to see answers.....also He doesnt always answer in the way we think He will.
I want to tell you......thank you for your honest question.
You are closer to God than you may think.
I have NEVER read in the Bible where it says to stay positive and smile. No one who has ever lived life on this earth and thinks they can actually do this all of the time is a liar.
My suggestion.....find fellowship that strengthens your faith. You dont have to be an optimist to be a Christian.
2006-09-21 14:07:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Venting is okay. Everyone feels the need from time to time...even Christians.
I've moved around alot in my life (not my favorite thing), and my very close relationships have become fewer and fewer, (because parting is NOT a sweet sorrow), so if I were to tell you to find someone to talk to, I feel like I should be talking to myself as well. I f you feel down tonight and reveal frailties that you later wish you hadn't, I won't hold it against you. We're way too hard on each other sometimes.
One thing I have learned is that you should never feel ashamed about being human. You know, when you're a christain, sometimes you put alot of pressure on yourself. I once was talking to a friend of mine who is black (I'm not), and he mentioned the pressure of being a representative of his race at his job. I thought ' Wow what a constant pressure that must be!' But as Christians, we sometimes put god-like conditions on ourselves that we can' t possibly humanly meet. We feel the burden of 'representing God' in the world (what arrogance). Then we have little patience with others who are obviously not meeting the 'standard' either. Our impatience is interpreted as arrogance, judgementalism, narrow-mindedness (and often rightly so). Really, we're just frustrated because we want to bring into the world the demonstration of something that is so ethereally apprehended that it evaporates as we try to grasp it....Yet you know, as surely as you know anything at all, that it's real....and it's special, and that it has the power to transform.
I know about the power to transform, because I have experienced it myself. And don't feel bad because it takes a few months for your prayers to be answered. Prayer is not magic. It's not you or me imposing our will on the divine power of God. Prayer is finding out what God wants to do in a situation and learning to agree with it, and learning to want it too, and then asking for it until it comes. That kind of persistence takes love...love for God, love for people, love for the earth.
So be at peace, and know that God still loves you; and there are followers of Jesus who are
Hoping the best for you....
2006-09-21 15:05:12 · answer #3 · answered by Debra N 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My friend, do you know Christ? I know you love him, but do you know him? Faith will keep you smiling and positive. You can not be taught to be that way. Ask God to strengthen your faith and shine in your life, your smile will come through without trying. Remember, the world is going to be pretty bad, and it is only going to worse before Jesus returns. This is what you are seeing. Yes, evil is strong and good gets pushed to the side, Satan is in this world bidding his time and trying to turn as many away from God as he can, he knows his time is short. Prayers are always answered, its just that sometimes the answer is NO. God knows best, you really have to trust that and have faith that God is in control, no matter what it looks like. Take a leap in faith!
2006-09-21 14:03:18 · answer #4 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
per chance you want to deflect grievance faraway from Christians for his or her section interior the evils of Naziism and the Holocaust, and also you imagine that by making use of narrowing it all the way down to even if Hitler changed into Christian or no longer, you could achieve this, making use of the best judgment that if Hitler wasn't Christian, then Christians weren't to blame for all those undesirable issues. yet yours is a pretend good judgment. even if Hitler turned right into a Christian or no longer, it truly is abundantly clean that the vast majority of supporters were Christians. As you your self say, ninety% of the inhabitants changed into Christian. with out those supporters, Hitler ought to have merely been some crackpot on the line nook shouting loopy issues. those Christian supporters praised him, supported him, ran the authorities, ran the most concentration camps, killed the disabled, rounded up dissidents, grew to change into their backs on the suffering, and dedicated countless cruel acts. also: you have not any info about him being in decide on of evolution. even with the indisputable fact that, we've important info that he believed in junk technology that contradicted evolutionary teachings.
2016-11-23 14:05:07 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be aware that when you enter into a relationship with Christ, God's enemy begins courting you a little more earnestly.
That is, you are beginning to believe the evidence of your senses rather than the evidence in your heart. You are perceiving the world to be no fair, a place where evil wins out.... Have you forgotten how you were saved without deserving it, and how the battle for human souls is already over, and God has won it?
Ask God that his will be done. Ask him, also, that he gird you against his enemy. Ask that he guide you in life, and reveal more to you about good and evil.
2006-09-21 13:58:16 · answer #6 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Only those suckers fed spiritual food poison (law law).
http://www.godshew.org/ShewBread9.htm#Expired
Those fed spiritual grace grow in grace unto perfection.
Trust in "Jesus", "they say".
Check out "they say" in 1Thess 5:3
What happens to "them" is not pretty.
Not allow'd to "continue"(the human race).
Hebrews 7:23 notes the "reason" is death.
Higher exhortation: come out from among them.
"Christ"-ianity is about "Christ".
"Through" J->C end focuses on C.
The J part cursed the fig tree (Israel).
Balaam wouldn't even do this in Num 23.
The "grace"(only) of our Lord J->C with you->all. Amen.
2006-09-21 14:41:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i never get tired of Jesus, but i do get tired of what some people call "christianity". They go about it all wrong and then it ends up giving it a bad name. God Bless
2006-09-21 14:11:35 · answer #8 · answered by mom 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps you are fed up with others cramming their interpretations of what should and shouldn't be done in the name of their particular brand of Christianity.
Have your relationship with your Creator, and nevermind anyone else. It is a personal relationship that no one has the right to interfere with - not even another so-called-Christian.
2006-09-21 14:01:53 · answer #9 · answered by None 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It's understandable. I get weary of people too. God loves us as we are. Weary, sad, confused, broken , I know I am loved by God.
2006-09-21 14:08:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋