Have you ever felt that God has left you?

Answer 1

Is that not the human condition? But did we move or did God?

Answer 2

Questions about feeling this or that about God confuse me to tell the truth.

I can say that I have wondered if God has left me, but in general I can't rely on my feelings to tell me whether God is working in me, near me, gone or whatever.

Maybe it's because I'm (in at least some ways *smile*), a typical North American male, and not in touch enough with my feelings, or maybe it's the seretonin problems I tend to have, but whatever it is, the idea of "feeling" God as a proof that He really is with me seems odd.

Blah, blah, blah -- that's a tangent from your question, I know. :) I often THINK God might have left me. But when it all goes around and around and comes out "here," it's usually something I've done or not done that has caused me to think that, not God's absence.

Answer 3

Yep...sure have. I learned from it a great lesson, however. We are not to go on our "feelings" as a correct indication of ANYTHING! God tells us that we are to "walk by FAITH (in what He has already told us is TRUE) and NOT by sight."

He has told us that once you become a member of His Body that He seals you until the day of redemption. Does that sound like He is planning on leaving you? Is there any scripture that tells us that God reverses this process of placing you into His Body? NO, not a one.

Once God takes up residence in you, its a done deal. We have SECURITY in our salvation because it is God who accomplished it FOR us and God who KEEPS us saved.

Study to find out who you ARE "in Christ." The truth of how God sees you now, and the NEW identify you presently HAVE will go a long way to helping you GROW in Grace.

Answer 4

I used to asked myself, what did I do now? How come he hasn't answered any of my prayers? Why did he leave me at the time when I was desperately counting on him? But then I just laughed at myself for being so clueless and ridiculously stupid. How could he leave when he wasn't even there to begin with. The good, the bad, and anything in between that has happened to me has nothing to do with God, it was all my doings all along. I create my own heaven and hell. I believe in myself, if I screw up, I've only got myself to blame. If I succeed. I'd take all the credit.

Answer 5

Yes,
and I have grieved God .








One night a man had a dream. He dreamed
he was walking along the beach with the LORD.


Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene he noticed two sets of
footprints in the sand: one belonging
to him, and the other to the LORD.



When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.


He noticed that many times along the path of
his life there was only one set of footprints.



He also noticed that it happened at the very
lowest and saddest times in his life.


This really bothered him and he
questioned the LORD about it:


"LORD, you said that once I decided to follow
you, you'd walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most
troublesome times in my life,
there is only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when
I needed you most you would leave me."



The LORD replied:


"My son, my precious child,
I love you and I would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you."

Answer 6

Sure, there have been times.
But it's always because I moved away from Him.
Faith does not rest on mere feelings though, but on truth.
And that's the way it is with so many things...people often make their choices based on feelings, and not on truth. Their truth changes with their feelings, which as we all know are variable.
The Truth never changes.

Answer 7

Yes, but I knew he was there.
It was me running away from him.
There is a God I believe, he is the epitome of love, he knows our true nature and embraces us for that but we have to be willing to change. And that can be a very hard thing. Some people don't want to change. It is a struggle many Christians and people go through alike.

Answer 8

I know that God was always there with me even when I had sinned. I might have thought he was not there because I felt alone. However, it was me that caused the distance and the fact I did not reconciled with him.

Answer 9

if he's even genuine, then he's the all-effective one, for this reason which ability he has the flexibility to no longer make himself experience left-out. i've got not got that ability. so in the journey that your god feels skipped over, he's something of an incompetent loon.

Answer 10

God has left you...you have wandered away from God...go back to the place where you felt HIS presence...