I have a good job. I have a stable family. I am pretty much healthy. I have religious believes. I feel empty, nevertheless.
2007-09-01 06:17:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
You may have religious beliefs,,,,,,,but you don't sound like someone who has a personal relationship with Jesus...if you don't feel like God is at work in your life,,,then you might need to rethink your salvation...so many people think they are saved, because they go to church,,,or because the belong to a church, or because their Mama was Baptist,,so they think that makes them Baptist...you need to reach into yourself and find where you stand with God.
There will always be an empty spot in your life if you don't really know him. You can know him...Read the Book of Acts and see what the first converts to Christianity did and how they knew they had the Holy Spirit in them...if you don't feel anything, just empty....I would check out a full gospel church locally....you will find what is missing!
2007-09-01 06:29:41 · answer #1 · answered by dreamdress2 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Look around you. All we hear about these days is negative and/or tragic news and events. I limit the amount of news I listen to each week. Ditto for reading newspapers and news magazines.
You are suffering from reality based depression. Likely, you are a kind and sympathatic person. You feel helpless to change much in the world, so you think your life is purposeless. Not true. You are a success. The people in your life love and depend on you. You have much that others don't.
It might help if you could volunteer or partipate in some cause. Hold onto your family and your faith. Remember, even Jesus, the God of all creation, only reached those with whom he was in contact at the time as he walked the earth. Heal the near and trust him to help the far. Life is a song worth singing. Sing for all its worth!
2007-09-01 06:50:25 · answer #2 · answered by amazingly intelligent 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All what you need is some love... some other people don't have any of what you have, but they are always happy because they've got love in their lives.
Try to work for other people. I mean do help people who really need you and your help, help the poor, the needy, visit some shelters etc. You did achieve everything in your life and you mentioned that you had religious believes, so you do be believe that God helped you to achieve everything. What if God helps you so that you can help the needy and give some love. There's nothing better than making someone smile.
Once you do something decent, God will never let you down. He will also make you smile.
2007-09-01 06:35:29 · answer #3 · answered by oOj 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with dream dress2. We humans have this tendency to build our self worth (self esteem) upon the real and imagined praise of others. So our self worth depends upon what we do and not who we are.
With God, it is not so. As a child of God, I am loved solely for who I am and not my good deeds.
I think what you need is a way to live for God and not for your own happiness. Our purpose in life is to seek God, to find Him and to have our being in Him. We do this through trying to live out His command to love our neighbors as ourselves. For where love is, there God is also.
Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian writer, wrote a short story entitled, "Where Love Is, There God is Also". It is on the internet at:
http://www1.umn.edu/lol-russ/PopLit/where_love_is,_there_is_god_also.htm
It had a great effect on my life. I hope it helps.
2007-09-02 23:31:59 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the way your life is, you're not going to make any kind of lasting impression on the world. When you die, your close family and friends are going to be sad, but the world's not going to stop turning and the universe isn't going to implode. No matter what any human does on Earth, it just does not matter on the scale of the universe.
2007-09-01 06:21:09 · answer #5 · answered by Jorge Bush 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋