Bible Discussion Thread

Father, I'm weak depending on You to help me protect and keep my thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Dear God knows,

This is an excellent prayer you made here. We can entrust our thoughts, emotions, and situations to God knowing that He does know all about us and our difficulties. We can have peace knowing that He is rich in mercy, it "never comes to an end", as Jeremiah lamented. I pray that you will soon have relief from the difficulties in your present situation and that, through this you will be strengthened in faith and your resolve to follow the Lord with your eyes fixed on Jesus, who will bring us through our sufferings, hardships, and difficulties lovingly and graciously.

Suffering brings us humans to a junction in our earthly lives. Why are we suffering? What did we do to deserve this suffering? How to stop the suffering? Who is to be blamed ? These questions reveal that somemind, g caused this suffering. If one have a physical challenge, maybe it is from birth or happened later in life, it not on!y affects one physically, like being unable to do things physically compared to a person without physical challenges. It affects us mentally, and therefore emotionally. Sometimes we do not have a physical challenge, but the situations that we face, poses a challenge to us. All sorts of thoughts that cross our mind we end up harboring, till it reaches a state where we become overwhelmed, we retaliate, we become bitter, and therefore we allow ourselves to fall into a mental state of disease and despair. we become our own worse enemies. Our thoughts become toxic, where no-one else wants to be around us. We begin to feel despair, and we feel like the walls are closing in around us. We feel hopeless. We become so consumed in the negative thoughts that we allowed into our minds, that we feel that we cannot take it anymore, we want the situation to stop. We feel like we are going to lose our mental balance. This state of mind can drive one to make the wrong choices in life. Especially when we are burnt out or consumed by the FIRE of the situation we called problems. Question: How do one overcome? This is my suggestion.... Get a personal book......put the date, then, start writing down the situation that you are experiencing..... The idea is to get it out from your mind into paper. This helps to declutter your mind so that you don't feel overwhelmed and consumed by those thoughts which are toxic. What you are doing is taking an action, empowering yourself to start healing. When the mind becomes decluttered, you must make extra effort, and take a decision that you are not going to allow your mind to be filled with non productive thoughts.