The presence of God

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The presence of God Christanon 12/07/17 (Thu) 04:25:21 d173b7 No.569337

Are any of you like me? Where you have found God and he has caused a miracle to help you in your life, but you feel depressed and disillusioned regardless? Maybe it's because i'm still a degenerate who believes nothing will get better. I feel like this should have changed me, or at least given me a happier/positive outlook on life. I guess the answer to my question would be to remove degeneracy before pondering about it. Also while i was thinking of this and filling out a captcha i ran into this image just now.

Christanon 12/07/17 (Thu) 05:07:33 28cb7f No.569346

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I can't profess to have received any miracles, but I do know that it is possible to get out of that pit. I don't recommend doing it on your own, though. You will need willpower, but you will also need help.

This sort of thing is what Christ was talking about when he said to cut off your hand if it causes you to sin. You will need to commit to cutting out anything that tempts you towards your particular sins. In my case, I had to cleanse my browsing habits, unfollow a lot of things, and stop going to pages that I knew were bad for me.

I'm not a really touchy feely person anyway, so the presence of God is something that is hard for me to 'get' when other people are talking about it. I take it as something of an article of faith. I practice the Faith because I know it is good for me, and because it is what God desires for all men. The closest I've come to feeling something like the presence that people talk about would be something that oddly happened just last Sunday. I hadn't gotten to Confession before Mass because the priest at my church is pretty heavy on giving advice, but I managed to slip in just after the homily and get shriven in time to receive the Host. Afterwards, I can't actually express just how grateful I felt and it was great.

Christanon 12/07/17 (Thu) 05:08:57 a8537e No.569349

>>569337

Exactly like you, so I beg God not to turn his back on me. Pain I know is inevitable. Life will have pain no matter how righteous we believe we are and if my faith was strong I wouldn't be afraid of it, I'd gladly take up my cross because I love and trust in the Lord, but my suffering is because of my own sin and self deceit just as it always was because I'm a sinner. What I feel now that's different than before is hope. We must repent.

James 1:12-15

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.