Here's a deep, dark secret: You're perfect, and everything you do is precisely what God wants you to do.
Remind yourself of that whenever you feel "out of control" or otherwise less-that-perfect.
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Here's a deep, dark secret: You're perfect, and everything you do is precisely what God wants you to do.
Remind yourself of that whenever you feel "out of control" or otherwise less-that-perfect.
Sorry, I didn’t mean a thread hijacking or to turn it from the subject at hand into a religious debate. I’m a Christian, but I disagree with some of those points. Namely, I don’t believe anyone currently alive is “perfect.” I would say only J.C. would tend to meet that threshold. Secondly, I disagree with the point that everything we do is God’s doing. By that reckoning, when we commit sinful actions, that would be laying the blame on Him, and that is simply wrong in my estimation. I think many of our problems stem from either ourselves or others engaged in sinful behavior for which He does not condone, and hence the repercussions. I do believe there is such a thing as free will, and either we follow Him or we don’t, but that not every thing we do is like a puppet on a string. If it was the way you suggest, that’s the more depressing theory, because that means we cannot, by our actions, willfully learn to follow Him and improve ourselves.