I had a bad feeling that God would make something bad happen if I were to do something bad, but I still ended up doing the bad thing. Now I'm feeling sad and guilty and helpless and hopeless that the bad thing will actually happen. How can I make things right?
2007-08-17 16:11:13 · 11 answers · asked by synchronised 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ask the Lord to forgive you, and also ask that He comfort you and guide you in all that you do....
2007-08-17 16:17:39 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Sunny Girl♥ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Consequence is the bad thing that happens when we make mistakes. If we are lucky, the mistakes we make are small, and the consequences are equally small.
God is pretty much genius. He made consequence so every action we take doesn't have to be policed. Ask yourself if you've experienced consequence and what prompted it so you will know what actions to avoid in the future.
In the meantime, remember that God is love and loves you. Remember that God is in every space, in every cell, and you can feel separate, but you can't BE separate from God. Be true to the God part of you.
And remember to forgive others because that helps you forgive your own mistakes.
2007-08-17 23:27:16 · answer #2 · answered by Jenny 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can't hide from the consequences of your actions, but you can learn from them. I noticed that you indicated that God didn't want you to do something. Why didnt He want you to? Because loves you and He wants what's best for you. Your decision is a display of what life is like when we take matters into our own hands. This is a lesson in trust my friend. Trust in the Lord, pray for forgiveness, and give your life to Him!
2007-08-17 23:25:23 · answer #3 · answered by disciple 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have these trials or temptations because spiritual growth is gradual. Just as it takes many years to become physically mature, it also takes many years to become spiritually mature. Love for the Lord and love for one's neighbor are not static qualities; they grow stronger and more perfect over the course of one's lifetime. In the mean time, our old, evil thoughts and self-centered habits still have an influence upon us. The result is a conflict between the "old man" and the "new man" (Ephesians 4:22-24), a struggle between the "flesh" and the "spirit." "The flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things you wish." (Galatians 5:17)
Turn to the Lord and ask Him for help, recognizing that only the Lord can save you. "As for me, I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice. He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle which was against me, for there were many against me." (Psalm 55:8) Only the Lord has power to overcome hell. We need to recognize that we are completely powerless on our own, and that the victory belongs to Him. "Power belongs to God." (Psalm 61:11) It is through Him that we conquer. (Romans 8:37; 1 John 5:4) The Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you." (Deuteronomy 20:4) "The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace." (Exodus 14:14) We can pray as David did, "Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man. Through God we will do valiantly." (Psalm 60:11) So "cast your burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain you." (Psalm 55:22)
From Your Brother
2007-08-17 23:38:53 · answer #4 · answered by My Brother 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan wants you to stay in this state of belief. Jesus wants you to come to Him, with the sin - bad thing that you did, confess it, lay it at the foot of the Cross, and leave it there completely forgiven. There is nothing that is beyond the Cross of Christ. Satan wants you to believe that something bad will happen to you. Give it to Christ- and He will replace your sin, with peace, forgiveness and love.
2007-08-17 23:21:39 · answer #5 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your guilt and feeling of hopelessness is the "bad" thing. Face it, you messed up. Was it worth it?
2007-08-17 23:20:12 · answer #6 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is nothing that you can do to make God love you less. Nothing. God is all merciful, and he will forgive you if you truly repent.
2007-08-17 23:24:24 · answer #7 · answered by CK 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Romans 7:15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Romans 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2007-08-17 23:23:56 · answer #8 · answered by Martin S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think that if you realize what you have done is wrong and you ask to be forgiven you'll be ok
2007-08-17 23:18:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i agree with AdoreHim...she's on the $
2007-08-17 23:25:51 · answer #10 · answered by sumgirlIN 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋