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Originally Posted by will19
I too have faith in God and Jesus also. I truly believed in what you said about how you can injure yourself if you make an attempt when God feels like it's not your time to go. I feel depressed a lot and can feel frustrated and then others (who are Christians) tell me that I am wrong for feeling this way. It only adds to the misery.
There are times I wonder if God just wants things to be like that? Some people tell me that God wants us to have an abundant life and those ill feelings and hopelessness is not what God wants. I'd like to think so, but why does God allow it when I pray about it and do the best I can to rescue myself?
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I don't believe God wants misery for us - but I believe a lot of things play into what happens in our life. Some of those things are within our control, some are not, and some never were. The things God does for us is give us a chance for hope even through darkness, the choice on how much pain and bitterness to hold onto or let go of after the event is over, loving support to help us through it and the wisdom to learn from it in any way we can.
It is my belief though that we are living in the very end of the end times and as such the torment will be great. Some of that torment will cause people to turn toward God and some will draw further away. I believe a lot of the things that are happening have to do with the ancestry of our nations, their leaders and our families but other things have to do with choices others made and we crossed paths with due to choices we made and still other things have to do with our personal choices. God is always there for us - but there are some things which come with consequences (not true "punishment" but consequence) and must be dealt with as such. Does that make sense?