/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

Mental illness is on both sides of my family (with the body count being two suicides each, and multiple attempts by relatives), and my mother is crippled by it. Yes, /pol/, I ain't ever having kids.

I'm comforted by meditating on Jesus as God-Man going through his trials and ordeals. I figure that if Jesus went through it all, I think I can too. If Jesus had to suffer in this life, then I'll do it as well. The reward is paradise.

>Do you ever feel angry about God?

Never.

Without seeking to belittle your situation, but the idea that your suffering is "meaningless" is a huge concern. In fact it's basically nihilistic materialism.

You should be thanking God for this opportunity to be constantly reminded of the Passion of Christ, and to offer up this suffering you feel to Him.

Fear Him, indeed, but don't "fear His anger" like he's some drunken father just waiting for you to slip up and when belt you for it. He is slow to anger and exceeding in mercy, and wants you to be saved much more than even you do. Please reconsider. Suicide is too grave a sin to even joke about.

>it will get MUCH worse if you quit right now.

Or, think about how much better it will get if you persevere until the end.

I will pray for you that you are given the strength to endure your ailments.

>>585543

Look at it this way: with less God in your life you would gave far more problems and suffer more. With no God in your life you would experience complete corruption and eternal death. Be thank full he has blessed you with life and saved you from complete destruction.

>>585543

Angry was not the correct word. Furious? Not even close. I was engulfed in an endless cycle of rage and depression directed against God. My animosity was out of the charts.

I didn't accepted my own mortality. My limitations. My cross. Now I live in peace.

>>585543

Why kill yourself when you can fight the odds?

I honestly just find myself wishing God would end my life already. A car accident, a terrorist attack, just something.

>>585543

I love God, so no.

>>585543

>I'm frustrated that He insists I live a meaningless and bleak 75 years

God doesn't want you to suffer, but being crippled doesn't mean your life is meaningless, maybe you can't get a qt wife and make kids but you can still do other stuff

>>585554

>Or, think about how much better it will get if you persevere until the end.

Trust us, we have no reason to lie. By the way, second collection plate making it's way across the pew, don't be stingy.

>>585718

Every relationship has rocky moments. Even moments of extreme anger.

In old times I had sometimes burst of rage, when I was reading articles and works that depicted God and divinity in extremely materialized form with radically literalistic interpretation of the Bible and various idiotic memes, such as tollhouses.

Then when I actually began to delve into the real stuff, it faded and I realized that I was a retard for having such an idiotic reaction because of several failed and fallible concepts by fallible men.

>>585982

tollhouses are real, not PHYSICALLY, but the demons will try to accuse you of sins and try to drag your soul down after death

>>585989

see, THIS and and similar """theories""" are the ones I was talking about in the first part

>>585543

I used to, but now I mainly blame myself because I'm weak and lazy. I mean sure, many of my problems are caused by the circumstances that were beyond my control but what can you do? Should I kill myself because someone's dad got him a cushy job while I'm struggling to survive? Or because some girl I liked preferred that guy to me? Nah man.

>>586005

> it may start an unnecessary debate

Isn't that what /christian/ is all about?

>>586011

not in this thread.

>>585965

You don't have to donate money to the plates, you know, just so long as you are actually using your money for good.

>>586011

He doesn't actually know anything about toll houses but wants to appear knowledgeable on an anonymous Angolan origamist penpal forum.

>>586013

Toll houses are all over the place in the Gnostic gospels.

>>586016

>>586017

These few days you are posting your gn*stic garbage and opening gn*stic garbage threads jost for them to be deleted and your numerous proxies getting banned.

Get a life at least. You and that old Anime gay poster are atriocious.

>>586020

I'm not the gnostic poster.

>>586021

Ha. Yesterday some anon was talking about archons but said the same.

>>585965

You're a normalfag aren't you? You sound like one.

When I was in the depths of my depression and self-hatred, when I was lashing out at those who wanted to help me like a rabid dog, when I was cutting my flesh with knives and desecrating this feeble temple of the Spirit by having homosexual intercourse, when I wanted to throw rocks at the skies in my drunk rage hoping they'd hit Him or in return he'd strike me and leave me dead on the spot…when I was like that, I truly was mad at Him. Then, at 20, when I almost had a heart attack for how always mad and upset with Him and the world I was, He instead sent me a simple priest to tell me how wrong I was, and I cried out all my rage. Now I am getting help for my mental issues, and I am learning (after almost 7 years) to respect myself not for who I am but for what He made me.

"Suffering is expiation."

"Suffering is necessary for our souls."

"In suffering we give something to God, which we cannot do in Paradise."

"He who begins to love must be ready to suffer."

"Suffering is a most powerful lever to raise man up again."

"Glory will be ours on condition that we endure suffering."

"The Angels are jealous of us because they can't suffer."

"Bearing physical and spiritual ailments is the worthiest gift we can offer to Jesus."

"Suffering is a sure sign that God loves us."

"Accepting the sufferings we will perfect and sanctify us."

The greater your sufferings, the greater God’s love for you.

When we suffer, Jesus is closer to us.

The storms that are raging around you will turn out to be for God’s glory, your own merit, and the good of many souls.

Every sacrifice which your soul makes, every good it does is directed to God for the sanctification of all.

True and substantial devotion consists in serving God without experiencing any sensible consolation. This means serving and loving God for His own sake.

How unbearable is pain when suffered far from the Cross, but how sweet and bearable it becomes when it is offered close to the Cross of Jesus!

If we earnestly endeavor to love Jesus, this alone will drive all fear from our hearts and soul will find that instead of walking in the Lord’s paths, it is flying.

Don’t be daunted by the cross. The surest test of love consists in suffering for the loved one, and if God suffered so much for love, the pain we suffer for Him becomes as lovable as love itself.

He wants you entirely for Himself, He wants you to place all your trust and all your affection in Him alone and it is precisely for this reason that He send you this spiritual aridity, to unite you more closely to Him.

Jesus is with you even when you don’t feel His presence. He is never so close to you as He is during your spiritual battles. He is always there, close to you, encouraging you to fight your battle courageously. He is there to ward off the enemy’s blows so that you may not be hurt.

-t. Padre Pio

>>586266

>quotes stop appearing around each line

>Anon got tired of doing it?

>Anon got bored?

>Pio didn't say the latter things, anon did.

pick one

>>586275

They're from different sources and I didn't want to add quotes or memearrows. do a search on them if you want

>>585543

You sound ungrateful & highly spoiled. If you see no beauty in life you may want to change your perspective.

>>586050

You sound like you're a massive dum dum with no argument, are you?

the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.