GOD HAS ANSWERED THE SIMPLE BUT DESPERATE PRAYER I HAD.

Every week or day I see Christians (myself included) who are suffering from a whole range of emotional problems: loneliness,, grief over broken relationships, resentment and feelings of inadequacy, falling in and out of love, finding a nice but not paying jobs. Seem to be in support of others and being overlooked.

Often we have been struggling with these problems for years. WE ARE PEOPLE IN PAIN.

Those on one side of the issue say that people who struggle EMOTIONALLY are “In Sin“.

They say we don’t have enough faith, we are not obedient or we don’t spend enough time in the Word of God. I don’t know what is your take on this issue. While we are blamed for our PAIN.

ANSWERS THEY GIVE IS THAT;
“GOD IS TRYING TO TEACH YOU SOMETHING”.

Another will say,
“LOOK AT THE BLESSINGS YOU STILL ENJOY”.

And further say,
” GOD IS TESTING YOU”.

When you listen to the preaching in church they say,
” GIVE THANKS IN SPITE OF YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES”.

All these contain the elements of truth, but does not help us in pain.

Simple answers never really relieve pain. These answers can literally drive us away from God.
When I have to take these answers to heart I now have two problems instead of one:

1.THE PAIN I ORIGINALLY HAD, plus,

2. The GUILT OVER NOT ABLE TO APPLY THE ANSWERS I WAS GIVEN.

This has done an untold damage and has led us to reach the conclusion that people are giving us lies, that we are worthless physisians (Christians).

Several days ago I found myself wanting to say to God, “I quit, I really don’t know what helps. God, if there is something that does, you will have to show or lead me to it”.

Most of us tend to fake healing when told of these answers just to remain in Church with a hope for a real healing, or just decide to leave church because maybe our faith provide little solace for our emotional pain.

While we are looking for answers that work and not finding them in church, we turn to psychological methods and often they succeed and we find relief because there are people willing to listen and talk over your problems instead of passing unqualified judgement over the pain one is encountering.

But now the question that comes to my mind is, ” WAS IT GOD OR PSYCHOLOGY that provided the cure?

What do you think?

All I (Mackson Shiburi) know is that the relief is from God, but there seem to be no biblical system by which to defend it. I know that it just worked.