Dear Lord, Please help me now. After ...

[Daniyel789]

Read my testimony again. Maybe it's time for you to stop thinking about yourself

Thinking about myself? No, on the contrary, for twenty years I have given of myself unselfishly for another person. I have sacrificed much in my life to be there for the other person. No I am not being selfish. At the same time, if looking out for one's own well-being is considered "selfish," then so be it. There is no sin in self-preservation; particularly when one is at the end of his rope. This is a very dysfunctional mindset: when one's own health and state of mind is jeopardized from trying to take care of someone else, then there is problem. I must take care of myself. If I do not, then I can not help anyone else if my health and well-being is crippled. And me calling out to God for help for help in this matter is definitely not being selfish.

 

[Brother James]

Thinking about myself? No, on the contrary, for twenty years I have given of myself unselfishly for another person. I have sacrificed much in my life to be there for the other person. No I am not being selfish. At the same time, if looking out for one's own well-being is considered "selfish," then so be it. There is no sin in self-preservation; particularly when one is at the end of his rope. This is a very dysfunctional mindset: when one's own health and state of mind is jeopardized from trying to take care of someone else, then there is problem. I must take care of myself. If I do not, then I can not help anyone else if my health and well-being is crippled. And me calling out to God for help for help in this matter is definitely not being selfish.

Wow, I was only sharing something very powerful that happened to me when I honored Mathew 6 and quit taking thought for myself. I was not accusing you of being selfish at all. Do you think that Jesus took thought for himself or us when He let Himself die for us? Do you think that Christ complained about letting Himself or giving up His very life for us? Do you not realize how very much you could experience by letting only or even mostly Jesus think for you? Did you read my testimony?

 

[Daniyel789]

Wow, I was only sharing something very powerful that happened to me when I honored Mathew 6 and quit taking thought for myself. I was not accusing you of being selfish at all. Do you think that Jesus took thought for himself or us when He let Himself die for us? Do you think that Christ complained about letting Himself or giving up His very life for us? Do you not realize how very much you could experience by letting only or even mostly Jesus think for you? Did you read my testimony?

Yes and I do understand the difference...

 

[Daniyel789]

Yes and I do understand the difference...

...And there is still "double-speak" in what you are saying: "taking thought for one's self" still has the implication in the minds of most people of "selfishness". Attempts to demonize and invalidate one's God-given intelligence, for purposes of survival, is a gross human rendering of what humans presume God to be thinking. Yes, I talk to God. But I do not project my fears and ideas onto God. Faith can easily be inverted by man into a God made in man's image. This, in no way, means that I do not trust God, On the contrary, being a fallible human I have my limitations; and being exhausted and burned out from taking care of another person does not mean that I do not believe that God is working in my life. But it does mean that in the midst of our turmoil we get desperate and call out to God for help. There is nothing wrong with that.