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1 | How do I know / feel / experience God | 1 Cor 1:28 | zeagle50 | 241901 | ||
I have accepted Jesus as my savoir, I know that he died for my sins and through him I can receive eternal life. I pray and read EVERY day for over an hour. I have friends who are Christians that I talk too. I try to live a good Christian life. The way God wants. My question is this: I am really getting frustrated, tired, and disappointed. I cant seem to see or feel God in my life. I am really trying to know him. I think that God just doesn't want me. I pray every day for him to open my mind, let me feel his love and know he is in my life. But nothing. I keep reading and praying daily but just don't feel his love or even him being in my life. Sometimes I feel like giving up and believing that God just doesn't want me. Not that I am a bad person, but he has so many to choose from. I cant stop thinking that this is the only reason I have not felt him in my life. I know I am not supposed to go by how I feel, but the bible talks about you being at peace, feeling, knowing god is in your life. Trusting, relying on god. Doesn’t god have some part in revealing himself to me or helping me know him better? |
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2 | How do I know / feel / experience God | 1 Cor 1:28 | DocTrinsograce | 241902 | ||
Dear Zeag, We are told in the Word to "consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God." (1 Corinthians 1:26-29 NASB) See that? Not many wise, not many mighty, not many noble. That's us! That is you and that is me! Feelings and experiences are the things that the world offers. They are essential ingredients for what the world offers. There are even many churches who try to give feelings and experiences in order to prove to the congregants that something magical is happening. But as the Word says above, those worldly things God will make into nothing. Rather it is the things that the world despises that He will make into something. He will do this specifically so that none of us will be able to boast in ourselves, but that all of it will be of God. You see, the proof that God has chosen you is in your continued desire to know Him. He has given you redemption through Christ, otherwise you could not approach Him. He has given you His Word, otherwise you could not know Him. As a saved person there is peace between you and God -- a peace that is declared by Him in the Word -- not simply some fuzzy feeling. The world will give you feelings and experiences without substance. If God gives you substance without feelings and experience, rejoice in the substance! In a previous post I directed you to Hebrews 12. Apparently you did not notice the promise given therein: "All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness." (Hebrews 12:11) Let me reiterate: The proof that you are His own is your desire for Him. You will be willing to pursue Him even in the dry wastelands. The proof that you are not His own will come if you abandon your seeking of Him. Think of it like this: If a man loves a woman, he does not stop loving her when she leaves the room. He does not stop loving her when she goes to visit family in another town. In fact, if a man goes and romances another woman while the other is out of town, we know that this man never really loved her in the first place. Right now, Paul tells us, we do not see things clearly. We cannot see the object of our love with physical eyes, for our God is invisible. But the time is coming when we will see Him (1 Corinthians 13:12). God has promised to reward those who earnestly seek Him (Hebrews 11:6); i.e., they will see Him face to face. Forgoing warm-fuzzies now is certainly worth living with Him in eternal life! So it boils down to this: If you love the Lord, then continue to pursue Him. If you love feelings and experiences so much, then go back to the world (Matthew 10:37-38). I believe that you can see the comparative value of each option (Matthew 16:26; Revelation 3:17). In Him, Doc |
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3 | Thank you Doc - I appreciate your help | 1 Cor 1:28 | zeagle50 | 241904 | ||
Thank you Doc, I will keep reading, and look at Hebrews 12 again. Thank you |
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4 | Thank you Doc - I appreciate your help | 1 Cor 1:28 | DocTrinsograce | 241905 | ||
And persevere... we are praying for you! As the old hymn puts it... It will be worth it all when we see Jesus! Life’s trials will seem so small when we see Christ. One glimpse of His dear face, all sorrow will erase. So, bravely run the race 'till we see Christ. |
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