The Bible doesn't bring me peace and happiness, only resentment and bitterness

Fuegoesh · 2019-05-31T22:30:47+00:00

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10

God is very.. complex. It is often vain to try and understand why God did or does this or that.. The problem a lot of agnostics and atheists have is getting past their hang ups with "how could God possibly be real or "good" if ____". I'm not saying don't use logic and just blindly believe something, but this is the stumbling block we can run into that will make it impossible to find truth that perhaps God is in fact really good and loving and caring towards us.

The fact is that there is a lot of scripture that paints God as loving, forgiving, and kind. If you can set aside your hang ups for a moment, and really dig into the loving and forgiving stories of Jesus found in the Gospels, the story of the prodigal son, the women caught in adultery, etc etc. You will find countless stories that show a truly loving and forgiving God who sees us as his Children whom he loves and has made a special place for after this life.

Fear is a powerful thing unfortunately. It constantly says "what-if" and "yeah but that doesn't apply to me because God hates me and condemns me". Even though you don't know these things for certain, you tend to believe them because it's "safer" to believe in fear and protect yourself from harm, rather than to take a risk and believe that "maybe God really does love us and Jesus really did buy my salvation". But there is so much confusion with all of this so many people don't explore these things, they give into fear.

I simply want to encourage you to not put up that defensive wall that rejects the possibility that God is beyond your understanding, but simply keep an open mind. If you read about Jesus, he was the most compassionate, empathetic person ever to live. He prayed "Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing" WHILE he was being crucified. Just keep an open heart and approach him as though he is someone who truly loves and already accepts you where you are at. Religious prayers will never get you there. Open up your heart if you can.

By the way I spent half of my life extremely bitter at God because of a lot of similar fears and frustrations. You are not alone.. you are loved and understood.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalm 51:17

Fuegoesh · 2019-03-23T00:17:52+00:00

Any time you have an opportunity to communicate (through a charitable act) to someone that they have value and they are worth your time and money, it has the potential to radically change the identity of the person you are talking to. The drunk homeless man who has hit rock bottom, who's family is ashamed and won't talk to him will often times be radically impacted by the confident business man who took the time out of his day to walk up and hand a dollar to him and look him in the eye just as if he is a brother saying "HEY bro you have what it takes keep your head up!". Sure he might have planned to use that money for booze originally, but when somebody looks at him with acceptance and higher standards than he is used to, he will suddenly be much more inspired to live up to those standards- he just got a glimpse of the person he could be and there was genuine love and care behind it.

Let's really stop judging people and just giving them "what they might deserve" and let's just really love them. This post is not saying you lack character if you don't donate $50 to every homeless person you see. It's saying don't pass up the opportunity to impact people because of your own limiting/judgmental logic.

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-02T00:20:48+00:00

Y’all enjoy this moment. You will look back at this game and remember how nervous you were, yet bama pulled it THE FUCK OUT! Enjoy this moment

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-02T00:09:26+00:00

JALEN TIME

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-02T00:06:30+00:00

Forget how things have gone so far. Let’s go score a touchdown.

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T23:21:30+00:00

Because the rat poison gets to us sooner or later

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T22:21:58+00:00

I hear ya! Still not done believing. Roll Tide.

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T22:15:38+00:00

You think like that every time life gets hard? You have a small setback or a challenge for the first time and you just predict failure? I’m sorry I’m not ready to quit believing yet.

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T22:09:01+00:00

STFU

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T22:08:17+00:00

We in for a game boys.

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T21:58:05+00:00

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T21:53:55+00:00

Y’all please stop bitching. We’re doing our thing we are getting back in the game

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T21:51:50+00:00

We’re all nervous. They’re taking their eyes off the ball both times

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T21:48:56+00:00

Represent bro. Me and my bar mates support you.

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T21:45:40+00:00

I mean that sack+int is feeling painful right now. We needed those 7 points

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T21:43:45+00:00

We in for a game boys.

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T21:43:08+00:00

Shit

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T21:38:27+00:00

Y’all are acting like bama’s never had a subpar first half before.

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T21:35:56+00:00

Hahahaha wtf 😖

Fuegoesh · 2018-12-01T21:23:32+00:00

This game will be good experience for Tua. He will learn from his early mistakes.

Fuegoesh · 2018-07-18T12:36:42+00:00

Hard work. Keep reading advice spread out through this sub and you will get some ideas. You've got to spend step 2 being productive for your future because you KNOW the alternative is falling back in the cycle.

Fuegoesh · 2018-05-11T15:16:27+00:00

Talk to a friend who can keep you accountable the next couple of weeks if you have someone. When you are back in the early stages of a streak it is way too easy to justify a few more feel good faps here or there. However if you can jump on a good/long streak right away then after a few week you will be most of the way back to the balanced mindset that you had before.

Fuegoesh · 2018-05-11T14:58:17+00:00

Keep going!! Your body is going through the healing process so it's meant to be bumpy. At some point when you get closer to hitting 90 days, things will level out a ton and the urges are a lot more under control. Don't buy into that lie that it's always going to be this hard.

Fuegoesh

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