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What's my purpose? Christanon 11/17/17 (Fri) 01:35:31 0dc29f No.558109

Why couldn't i be replaced and instead of me being born why not someone else clearly more fit for whatever task he wants me to do? I'm so shallow in every aspect of life. I get suicidal thoughts from anything remotely "bad". After a while they always brush away but i keep asking "why me? I'm clearly not made for this." and i just think to myself "god must know better" but i can only wait so long, i'm running out of belief.

Sorry if my text seems to make next to 0 sense. I just want to see something that reminds me that god is truly benevolent.

Christanon 11/17/17 (Fri) 04:07:34 ac160f No.558195

>God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. (St. John Chrysostom)

God is love. Our very notion of love comes from God Himself, who defines it for us. God conceived of you before everything, and out of His infinite love made the world in such a way that you would come to be.

>Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness… (Genesis 1:26)

You are made in the image and likeness of God. As such, you are inherently worthy and inestimably valuable. It is not overestimating to say that the whole of creation was made for men, which necessarily includes you. The world is incomplete without you in it. Humanity would lack the essential part that you, and only you, can provide.

You may doubt yourself and see nothing special or admirable in your own character. But God, who is good, made you come to be, and made you to be a temple of His own Holy Spirit. You are irreplaceable and creation is made whole because you are a part of it.

Christanon 11/18/17 (Sat) 20:47:44 ac160f No.559106

Bump so anon can get some more input.

Christanon 11/18/17 (Sat) 20:58:27 1bbdf6 No.559111

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>Why couldn't i be replaced and instead of me being born why not someone else clearly more fit for whatever task he wants me to do?

what task is that? what do you have in mind that God wants you to do?

the only thing I can think God wants me to do is to love God with all my being and to love others as myself, and that doesn't come from me. all that love comes from God who works through me. He wants me to cooperate it is love so on that dreadful day of judgment I can be with the sheep. For this task, in my position, there's no one else better suited. My cross was made for me and for my good.

>I get suicidal thoughts from anything remotely "bad". After a while they always brush away but i keep asking "why me? I'm clearly not made for this.

beware of the devil. He will make you think his thoughts are yours. Thoughts that pop into your head are not you, unless you will them to be. Usually when I get a temptation ( sometimes it's hard to recognize) I tell Satan to get away from me, to go back to his hellfire, to perish, for that damnable worm to get away from me, or the help of a saint or God. thoughts that pop into your head can be from natural causes or supernatural causes, supernatural can be from an angel of God or from a demon.

Relax and stop stressing over it, rejoice in the fight, go to confession, take daily community if you can, and beware of that insufferable liar who is out to murder you and debase you.

also you should talk to your priest, because I think you need a lot of spiritual counselling.

Christanon 11/19/17 (Sun) 15:26:56 b5eccf No.559468

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>>558109

>Why couldn't i be replaced and instead of me being born why not someone else clearly more fit for whatever task he wants me to do?

Yep, know that feel.

>I'm so shallow in every aspect of life.

And this feel.

>I get suicidal thoughts from anything remotely "bad".

Know that feel.

>After a while they always brush away but i keep asking "why me? I'm clearly not made for this." and i just think to myself "god must know better" but i can only wait so long, i'm running out of belief.

And I know that feel, too.

Huh. Don't remember typing this. Don't think I was drunk or got Mr Robot-ed recently. Strange. Perhaps OP can read minds.

>I just want to see something that reminds me that god is truly benevolent.

Without limit, beyond measurement, inconceivably so. But, you won't find it here, m8.

Have faith in His plans. Have confidence that regardless all evidence to the contrary, God is still in control. But, also know that in these trying times, if you keep this faith, if you keep believing He is in control and NOTHING can undermine God's plans, you will slowly – glacially slowly, but just as surely – develop a faith that doesn't have to try and convince oneself of these things … you will know.

t. veteran of such feels and the faith that slowly develops from them

Christanon 11/19/17 (Sun) 17:40:47 a6a17c No.559524

You are the most fit person for the task He's put you here for, you just don't know what the task is so you can't judge your fitness.

Christanon 11/20/17 (Mon) 13:06:18 2c2b70 No.559959

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>>558195

>made the world in such a way that you would come to be.

Christanon 11/20/17 (Mon) 14:09:18 9792d3 No.559983

Your purpose is to worship God. That is why God made us, unlike angels who are designed to serve