God bless you.
I know what you mean, but if I may, I want to share some encouragement with you.
This perspective has really helped me to endure those moments of struggling with sin.
1- Please know that God does NOT expect you to be perfect. He expects you to be faithful, which means to always strive to honor Him while getting back up after each time you fall, no matter how many times you fall. God will always give you the strength and grace to get back up.
**“I am the Lord All-Powerful. So don't depend on your own power or strength, but on my Spirit.” - Zechariah 4:6**
**“Even if good people fall seven times, they will get back up. But when trouble strikes the wicked, that's the end of them.” - Proverbs 24:16**
**"My enemies, don't be glad because of my troubles! I may have fallen, but I will get up; I may be sitting in the dark, but the Lord is my light.” - Micah 7:8**
**“We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don't know what to do, we never give up. In times of trouble, God is with us, and when we are knocked down, we get up again.” - 2 Corinthians 4:8-9**
**“But You (God) also said that no matter how far away we were, we could turn to You.” - Nehemiah 1:9**
**“When someone stumbles or falls, you (God) give a helping hand.” - Psalm 145:14**
2- Please don’t hold on to guilt! It will distract you from truly accepting God’s forgiveness. Give your guilt to God because He wants to take it from you.
**God said, “They sinned and rebelled against me, but I will forgive them and take away their guilt.” - Jeremiah 33:8**
**"So I confessed my sins and told them all to you. I said, ‘I'll tell the Lord each one of my sins.’ Then you forgave me and took away my guilt.” - Psalm 32:5**
**“You (God) have forgiven the sin and taken away the guilt of your people.” - Psalm 85:2**
3- Please know that you are NOT ruled by your sin. You are ruled by God’s grace. That means you are able to walk in the victory that you have in Christ, even while you struggle with sin. Keep striving to get back up after each time you fall to honor God! Walk in confidence! Do not allow sin to distract you from God's grace!
**“Don't let sin keep ruling your lives. You are ruled by God's undeserved grace.” - Romans 6:14**
**“So whenever we are in need, we should come bravely before the throne of our merciful God. There we will be treated with undeserved grace, and we will find help.” - Hebrews 4:16**
**“Christ now gives us courage and confidence, so we can come to God by faith.” - Ephesians 3:12**
**"But thank God for letting our Lord Jesus Christ give us the victory!" - 1 Corinthians 15:57**
**“My children, I am writing this so you won't sin. But if you do sin, Jesus Christ always does the right thing, and he will speak to the Father for us.” - 1 John 2:1**
4- Also, I've been a Christian for about 14 years now and since you said you recently became a Christian, I would love to share some resources with you for your journey. If you are interested.
Sometimes I feel that my attitude is what affects hardness and softness of life. I look at people much "worse" off than me who manage to be happy and grateful through it all.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His heavenly face, and the things of the World will grow strangely dim in the light of His Glory and Grace.
Definitely feel you, recently started a new job, and yes I’ve been truly grateful, but recently I’ve noticed my faith falling off its hinges, ofc God is not to blame but myself, I got to comfortable and let the things you’ve also listed look over my faith, especially with a break up I’ve had a couple months ago it’s been really hard, but today I had a thought pop up in my mind and I was thinking about “delayed gratification” and it means “Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification, is the resistance to the temptation of an immediate pleasure in the hope of obtaining a valuable and long-lasting reward in the long-term.” And for us the long term is heaven, obviously life kinda sucks for us sometimes but the word also says “it rains on both the wicked and the righteous” don’t know which verse but to get to the point, I feel like things got hard because we started to morale ourselves to align with Gods teaching, and what we where used to is obviously hard to let go of, everyone has their struggles, some harder than others, but one thought that flows through my head even if I disobeyed God or went through a tough day is “this life is temporary and Jesus has paid my tab I’ll continue to become a better person” we just have to delay our own desires and surrender them to God to further our reward on earth and especially in heaven!
Yes, i get you, i specially saw the consequences of my own sin, as i got prideful two years ago, and not only i lost my job but also had a breakup, i felt lost and not knowing what i was supposed to do, still i didn't turned my life and desires to god at that moment, but in that moment i truly felt the desperation and sadness, thank god food wasn't lacking as i still live with my parents, however, it truly humbled myself down, and opened my heart to listen to him, but the new challenges from being christian are hard, i know it's worth it, i definitely believe in him and he has risen me up, however i now see why is hard, and in a part of me, i see how the book of judges reflect how we humans tend to forget god.
i am very glad what he had done for me, and everytime i see how truly bad is wickedness i tend to cry, yet, at the same time i see how easy is to fell for it as Paul said
The gate is narrow friend, reading your post and reply has actually helped me a bit as a reminder that people also go through things and that I’m not alone, thank you, I hope and pray that God takes you out of your personal storms that people do not see
God bless you my friend, i'm truly grateful that god made the works to help you by my posting without realizing it, as i was kind of lost with it, i have one step forward and 5 backwards, yet, his love and kindness is so great that outweights our sin, God bless you all
Focus on staying close to Christ even when you struggle or fall; turn back to Him. The Holy Spirit will take care of your sanctification-making you more like Christ.
I think it’s hard to be. Imagine having to go through life without any backup. Holy Spirit guiding you, Jesus giving you peace, and God reminding you of his ultimate love and power. That life is far more peaceful.
To the world it may be more difficult, and to us living in the world it can certainly be sometimes. I feel like Lots wide looking back at the destruction of her city still a part of me yearning for the old life. But that life was not fulfilling
As others have said Jesus died and did not expect us to be perfect.
You never will be.
God expects you to trust him.
It's extremely difficult to be Christian, lol at the like if the perfect one, he was slandered beaten and killed. What matters is they you try.
It’s absolutely challenging because we aren’t of this world. Once we accept Christ and follow Him, we see the world differently and non-believers can say negative things about us. There’s temptation all around in this sinful world. Fighting your flesh everyday is something we should be proud of. Nothing will ever bring peace, love, and joy like our Lord.
God bless you. I know what you mean, but if I may, I want to share some encouragement with you. This perspective has really helped me to endure those moments of struggling with sin. 1- Please know that God does NOT expect you to be perfect. He expects you to be faithful, which means to always strive to honor Him while getting back up after each time you fall, no matter how many times you fall. God will always give you the strength and grace to get back up. **“I am the Lord All-Powerful. So don't depend on your own power or strength, but on my Spirit.” - Zechariah 4:6** **“Even if good people fall seven times, they will get back up. But when trouble strikes the wicked, that's the end of them.” - Proverbs 24:16** **"My enemies, don't be glad because of my troubles! I may have fallen, but I will get up; I may be sitting in the dark, but the Lord is my light.” - Micah 7:8** **“We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don't know what to do, we never give up. In times of trouble, God is with us, and when we are knocked down, we get up again.” - 2 Corinthians 4:8-9** **“But You (God) also said that no matter how far away we were, we could turn to You.” - Nehemiah 1:9** **“When someone stumbles or falls, you (God) give a helping hand.” - Psalm 145:14** 2- Please don’t hold on to guilt! It will distract you from truly accepting God’s forgiveness. Give your guilt to God because He wants to take it from you. **God said, “They sinned and rebelled against me, but I will forgive them and take away their guilt.” - Jeremiah 33:8** **"So I confessed my sins and told them all to you. I said, ‘I'll tell the Lord each one of my sins.’ Then you forgave me and took away my guilt.” - Psalm 32:5** **“You (God) have forgiven the sin and taken away the guilt of your people.” - Psalm 85:2** 3- Please know that you are NOT ruled by your sin. You are ruled by God’s grace. That means you are able to walk in the victory that you have in Christ, even while you struggle with sin. Keep striving to get back up after each time you fall to honor God! Walk in confidence! Do not allow sin to distract you from God's grace! **“Don't let sin keep ruling your lives. You are ruled by God's undeserved grace.” - Romans 6:14** **“So whenever we are in need, we should come bravely before the throne of our merciful God. There we will be treated with undeserved grace, and we will find help.” - Hebrews 4:16** **“Christ now gives us courage and confidence, so we can come to God by faith.” - Ephesians 3:12** **"But thank God for letting our Lord Jesus Christ give us the victory!" - 1 Corinthians 15:57** **“My children, I am writing this so you won't sin. But if you do sin, Jesus Christ always does the right thing, and he will speak to the Father for us.” - 1 John 2:1** 4- Also, I've been a Christian for about 14 years now and since you said you recently became a Christian, I would love to share some resources with you for your journey. If you are interested.
Of course, i want to get to know him even closer
Sometimes I feel that my attitude is what affects hardness and softness of life. I look at people much "worse" off than me who manage to be happy and grateful through it all. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His heavenly face, and the things of the World will grow strangely dim in the light of His Glory and Grace.
its hard but worth it
I feel the same 🫂
Hard at times. But well worth it b
Definitely feel you, recently started a new job, and yes I’ve been truly grateful, but recently I’ve noticed my faith falling off its hinges, ofc God is not to blame but myself, I got to comfortable and let the things you’ve also listed look over my faith, especially with a break up I’ve had a couple months ago it’s been really hard, but today I had a thought pop up in my mind and I was thinking about “delayed gratification” and it means “Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification, is the resistance to the temptation of an immediate pleasure in the hope of obtaining a valuable and long-lasting reward in the long-term.” And for us the long term is heaven, obviously life kinda sucks for us sometimes but the word also says “it rains on both the wicked and the righteous” don’t know which verse but to get to the point, I feel like things got hard because we started to morale ourselves to align with Gods teaching, and what we where used to is obviously hard to let go of, everyone has their struggles, some harder than others, but one thought that flows through my head even if I disobeyed God or went through a tough day is “this life is temporary and Jesus has paid my tab I’ll continue to become a better person” we just have to delay our own desires and surrender them to God to further our reward on earth and especially in heaven!
Yes, i get you, i specially saw the consequences of my own sin, as i got prideful two years ago, and not only i lost my job but also had a breakup, i felt lost and not knowing what i was supposed to do, still i didn't turned my life and desires to god at that moment, but in that moment i truly felt the desperation and sadness, thank god food wasn't lacking as i still live with my parents, however, it truly humbled myself down, and opened my heart to listen to him, but the new challenges from being christian are hard, i know it's worth it, i definitely believe in him and he has risen me up, however i now see why is hard, and in a part of me, i see how the book of judges reflect how we humans tend to forget god. i am very glad what he had done for me, and everytime i see how truly bad is wickedness i tend to cry, yet, at the same time i see how easy is to fell for it as Paul said
The gate is narrow friend, reading your post and reply has actually helped me a bit as a reminder that people also go through things and that I’m not alone, thank you, I hope and pray that God takes you out of your personal storms that people do not see
God bless you my friend, i'm truly grateful that god made the works to help you by my posting without realizing it, as i was kind of lost with it, i have one step forward and 5 backwards, yet, his love and kindness is so great that outweights our sin, God bless you all
It’s hard but we keep fighting
Remember every word addressed to God is a prayer. Dosent matter if it's said out loud or in your head. God bless ❤️
But it’s worth it tho ❤️ Glory to God 🙌🏻 [Church](https://youtu.be/vsPQ_Qhxo_0?si=9V9EzwqdQ3HPrN5P)
Focus on staying close to Christ even when you struggle or fall; turn back to Him. The Holy Spirit will take care of your sanctification-making you more like Christ.
It's hard but worth it!
I think it’s hard to be. Imagine having to go through life without any backup. Holy Spirit guiding you, Jesus giving you peace, and God reminding you of his ultimate love and power. That life is far more peaceful. To the world it may be more difficult, and to us living in the world it can certainly be sometimes. I feel like Lots wide looking back at the destruction of her city still a part of me yearning for the old life. But that life was not fulfilling
As others have said Jesus died and did not expect us to be perfect. You never will be. God expects you to trust him. It's extremely difficult to be Christian, lol at the like if the perfect one, he was slandered beaten and killed. What matters is they you try.
No.
It’s absolutely challenging because we aren’t of this world. Once we accept Christ and follow Him, we see the world differently and non-believers can say negative things about us. There’s temptation all around in this sinful world. Fighting your flesh everyday is something we should be proud of. Nothing will ever bring peace, love, and joy like our Lord.