Christians:?

Question

Do you ever have moments when you wonder whether you really love God? I'm also a Christian and it just worries me...

Answer 1

I want to begin by giving my pedigree, it is not to brag, just if anyone should answer no to this question one would think it was me. I was raised as a fourth generation Christian in a very devout family. My grandfather was a minister, and my dad was a deacon. I graduated from college with a degree in theology (Liberal Arts to be exact but it was theology as my emphasis) worked 4 years as a youth minister. Left that to take a secular job so that I was free to travel on weekends as a speaker.

I should have all the right answers about the strength of my faith. However, to answer your question, yes I do. I have periods where I scream at God. I have periods where I question God's existence. I have periods where I question His intentions. I have periods where I question if I even care.

About a year and a half ago I made a startling revelation about myself. Yes, I have those periods but they always fall at one or two times. When I am morally compromised or when I am self focused and not being a servant. It was at that point I realized the whole point James was making in his epistle was that. James 1:27 is a formula for a strong faith.

We see this illustrated in the Garden. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating the fruit they became morally compromised and self focused both. They were now unable to do the service God had ordained for them and so they hid from God. I believe my questions about God are a mental rather than physical expression of that hiding from God. I distance myself from God by question him and my relationship to him.

Personally speaking, I now try when I start to feel that way to ask myself two questions:

1. Have I morally compromised myself?
2. Have I been too busy serving Kevin to serve others?

I pray you find the peace in your faith you are looking for.

Answer 2

Actually no, I don't.

I do however, have moments when I question whether or not I am giving my all to God.
In these critical times we live in with the end so near, it's easy to get caught up in the mundane things of life and work and other anxieties that come upon us. So I try to heed the counsel at Matthew 6:33 where Jesus tells us to seek God's Kingdom first and then all the other things will be added to you.

Sorry I strayed from your original question, but I am also a Christian as well, and having moments like that could be detrimental to your relationship with God.

I suggest you pray to him about your concern and ask him to grant you with more faith.

Answer 3

I get jealous at times when someone apparently has more love for Him than I do.

Check it out, do you see this:
Psalm 42:1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.

Have you ever done that? I hadn't until it bothered me so much that I prayed on it. God gave me that kind of love. It's desire, a wanting because I want to be with Him, not here. Not on this rotting planet full of disease, war, schedules, and demands for things that have nothing to do with Him. This world is slipping into greater darkness, and I don't like it a bit.

So I trust Him, even more as I contemplate the events of this morbid world. I don't even like myself because I, even after being blessed, can doubt Him with the next worry on my mind.

So It's a question of values. What do you love more? This world, or the one where we live with Him? The one without our sin in the way and all the things that make us separated from Him.

Answer 4

No. But there are times when I look at what's going on around me and wonder whether I truly understand Him. Then I remember that His ways are higher than my ways and His thoughts higher than my thoughts (Isaiah 55:9).

Loving God follows the same process as loving a person who's in your life. You must get to know Him before you can feel any emotions for Him.

Answer 5

You sure seem to be having a lot of problems with your emotions. You are trying to live and be guided by them, and since emotions are such fickle things, it's really hard to live by them. You are constantly being swung in different directions, depending on which song is on the radio lol.

Love isn't an emotion, it's a verb. It's something that you do, not something that you feel. If you wonder if you really love God, check back on your recent history and see if you've really loved God. If not, then get to it!

Answer 6

Yes, when things go wrong or when I see other Christians lost in worship and I don't seem to 'get it'. I get through these moments by reading the bible and singing worship songs for a few hours, every day, and just sitting listening to hear what God has to say. It doesn't hurt to ask others to pray for you, God often speaks louder to me through others.

Answer 7

I think that is something we all struggle with from time to time. In the USA we have such a warped sense of what it means to really love someone.

That's were having a relationship with God comes into play. When we pray we are speaking to God and when we read the Bible we are allowing God to speak to us. Both are essential to a healthy relationship.

God Bless:)

Answer 8

I think that we all have our bad days, take a look at the Psalms, David often had day were he did wander where God was. Its human nature. Remember that even if you at some point or other really hate God that he still loves you & that he is there for you in your time of need (even if at that time he seems miles away!)

Answer 9

I've had time and moments when I wonder if I loved God and if He loved me. When my grandmother and uncle passed away I got angry at God. But I sat and talked with my preacher and he helped me through it all. And now I have no doubt that I love God and He loves me in return.

Answer 10

Dear One

Love is a ACTION not a feeling in the Christian faith.

I Cor 13
4Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.

5It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].

6It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.

7Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].

8Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy ([d]the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth].