What is the one thing that has tested your faith in yourself the most? And how did you deal with it? Just curious?
2007-06-20 12:19:50 · 15 answers · asked by Vintage Glamour 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My infertility.
I saw medical specialists, tried some of the more basic treatments and when the specialists told me that even if I managed to get pregnant I would likely miscarry I decided to stop treatment. It's hard to realize that you can't have all that you want, however, in the long run it's made me a stronger person than I was before.
2007-06-20 12:24:36 · answer #1 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For me there's no one thing, but there is a source. Reading more and more. Fiction, science, movies, ideas. There's so much more than faith or that points faith in a different direction. The more you know, the harder it is to conceive of something being concrete or absolute as far as spirituality or anything really. Too many dissenters that aren't necessarily bad and just have a different take on what you might believe. I still deal with it everyday. I've still got a kernel or two of faith I'm just trying to alchemize what I know and believe into something I can follow. Peace
2007-06-20 19:26:01 · answer #2 · answered by daofmi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It happened when I gave up on faith, I didn't want to believe in anything any longer, including myself. It was a conglomeration of everything all at once, all wrong, all bad, no good luck, a complete loss of soul. Then I prayed.
I waited for the answer.
My eyes opened and I saw the truth in life after I realized that religions contained no truths, but the spirit of life does.
I realized when I looked for bad, then I could find it.
I realized my thoughts created my world around me.
And when I changed my thoughts to happiness, happiness came into being.
Then I found out that others knew about this, and some called it the big secret. I watched the movie The Secret, and read the book Quantum Success, as well as The Law of Attraction, and saw that I was right, and that everyone who changes their thoughts to good, receives good too.
2007-06-20 19:38:36 · answer #3 · answered by amberwolf_for_art 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am currently testing my faith in myself. I am starting a career in real estate. I have been in the business for 3 yrs and was scared to take the final step and start to sell it myself. But I did this a month ago, so now I am questioning whether or not I can do this, if my skills are as strong as I thought, if my faith in myself was misplaced or over emphasized. I deal with it by talking to friends that know me and know I can do this, people that support me. But just in case, let me know if you want to buy a house in San Diego County. hehehe
2007-06-20 19:29:24 · answer #4 · answered by Misa Lynne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the thing which tested my faith the most was when I was first really starting to learn about God and my love for people was put to the test. I was in the Army in 1989 and I was pretty well persecuted. My room mate at the time seemed to the devil incarnate and him and another person in the barracks were constantly trying to incite people against me. They were constantly trying to provoke me to fight. In fact, my room mate physically assaulted me when I ask him to go to church. But the Lord supernaturally protected me from his attack. In addition, my room mate incited others to come looking for me with 2x4 sticks and base ball bats a couple of times. I was so stressed in that situation that I thought about committing suicide. I keep asking God for a way out, but He kept telling me to love these people. I said how can I love them, when they are doing what they are to me. However, I did as God told me and I found my peace and there efforts to discourage did not work anymore. In fact, when I left, both of my main persecutors confessed that they might be headed that same way as me in Christ.
2007-06-20 19:49:39 · answer #5 · answered by super saiyan 3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This last year tested my faith in myself. I had one friend accuse me of not being good at my job, and another that it turned out had problems with me but didn't tell me, instead told other people. It made me doubt myself and my abilities, and my friendships. Still in therapy dealing with it...
2007-06-20 19:25:41 · answer #6 · answered by keri gee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a gift. I see things other people don't. I know things other people don't.
It tests my faith every day. Is it really a gift or am I out of my mind?
By and large I simply trust in God. However I am not above arguing with him about it. "WHY ME???!!!"
2007-06-20 19:23:54 · answer #7 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't need faith in myself. I have faith in the CREATOR of the universe who loves me. He gave His Son so that I might have life.
2007-06-20 19:23:45 · answer #8 · answered by Theophilus 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, I have really never had any faith in myself.
2007-06-20 19:22:34 · answer #9 · answered by johnnywalker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
letting jehovas witnesses live as they leave my porch its a test of strength but i pass about 40 % of the time
2007-06-20 19:24:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋