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When we say “accept this world as it is, not as i would have it” is not necessarily accepting the world and its heaviness and evil as ok, but it’s surrendering our will totally to God. Bad things will happen, things will not make sense at times (most of the time in my life lol), but God has promised He works all things together for the good (Romans 8:28). I’ve seen this happen over and over in my life. What I can’t see working out to be ok, God has already purposed that experience to grow my relationship with Him. It’s not really an acceptance issue, but a perspective shift. When you meditate, try meditating not in your own thoughts but on the Word of God instead. Read it aloud .. those promises in His word and that your program are based on are real and they work!
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Yes I am Christian - JC is my HP. I really needed to hear this today. I would not have found faith again had it not been through my own suffering that’s for sure. I am just in this mood today wanting to know all the answers…
For myself I would consider if it is an issue of humility. I have to remind myself that I can barely understand my higher power at work in my immediate surroundings. I have very little basis to evaluate his motives in Lebanon. And each person that I perceive as being harmed in the world, my hope is that they have a higher power of their understanding who is doing what needs to be done for them. I just need to worry about what mine is doing for me and that's enough.
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This is helpful perspective. When I look back on my own life everything bad that has happened fits together like a puzzle.I guess I need to just worry about my own puzzle, and not the world puzzle.
I struggle with this after over a decade sober, don't let it hang you up to a point where you want to drink. I want to have this undeniable faith of a higher power, yet some days it's simply not there. What has helped me the most is to fully understand that I am not the God of anyone's understanding, and that in that frame, I am truly powerless in this world. I can control my reactions (sometimes), and that's about it.
I am powerless, yet wonderful, and miraculous things, such as staying sober, happen in my life constantly if I just stay out of the way and do the next right thing. There is definitely a creative and intelligent design, and that design seems to flow better when I am not trying to force my alcoholic thoughts and ideas into it.
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These are both really helpful comments. I have no doubt there’s an intelligent designer. I think the issue may be coming down to a resentment against God right now from reading some of these comments. Part of this, as crazy as this sounds because I am crazy, was stirred up again not just by bad things happening in the world but from watching a recent hollywood movie that is popular right now that is anti-God. It sent my mind down a rabbit hole. And then also sometimes I think I seek out hopelessness because it gives me an excuse to not do the hard work, and potentially go back.
What if a “God” created the earth but doesn’t manage it?
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I go back and forth with this perspective… but then prayer seems like a futile exercise if God has no managerial powers…
I understand how you feel. Please believe there is a God that created us all. And yes we were given free will because God wanted us to choose to love him from our hearts by choice not because he forced us to love Him. There are many things that we as humans do not understand, like this world and all of the terrible things that happen around us everyday. Remember we are flesh beings in the midst of a spiritual war between good and evil. Don't be worried or afraid. This is where faith and trust in God comes in. I pray for protection from the things in this crazy world everyday and have faith that God has his hand on me and my family. Read your Bible, pray, try to build a relationship with him. I talk to God like I am talking to you openly and honestly. According to the word of God this world will only get worse and more wicked until the end of days, because as I mentioned there is a battle between good and evil. When mankind refuses to change from their wicked ways God begins to pull back the peace on this earth one day there will be no peace until the return of Jesus.
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I was raised Presbyterian and now go to a Methodist church - so there’s never been much talk about apocalypse. Sometimes I wonder if we are actually in it now, and it’s not a defined moment, and he has returned. The battle is doing the next right thing each day and seeking him out in the midst of evil.
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Been praying to accept God’s will in this world and my life, and to help me find the willingness to keep doing this one day at a time, and got a new sponsee today - law student just coming in, right place and right time. Already relate to his situation so much. Been down the same path when I drank my way through law school. 🙏🏼 I’ve just gotta get this ego under control and admit (and mean it) that I don’t have all the answers…and never will.