Welcome to Talk Jesus
@cmd73
Always a joy to welcome someone whether they are a believer or not to Talk Jesus!
The difficulties we all have in life are not without a source. Even the believer is not promised to be without issues in this life. Folks have always looked that somehow when one believes in Jesus Christ, that all that has been wrong with them, up to this point will magically disappear or that nothing will ever go wrong with their lives from that moment forward. When that doesn't happen, it then makes some work even harder at it (whatever that "it" may be), in an attempt that things will change for the better. We believe this should be for the better, because we look at others and their testimonies, as well as scripture verses that reflect the possibility! So, seeking what we want to happen in our own lives and not seeing the results. Discouragement sets in, and even more. A questioning of what we believed in the first place takes place.
So, then we must ask ourselves and look back to the beginning. What did we believe in the first place? What was it that occurred in our life that had me believe the truth of the Gospel? I hope you have asked yourself these questions and truly looked at that first moment when/if you came to Jesus Christ. For me, the initial experience that I had, will not change. Now others can rationalize it as something else, but I know what I experienced in a little Baptist Church in Germany to be true. From that moment on things changed. Initially for the better, then for the worse. What did not change was that one moment in time, when darkness became light, and that knowledge that I was important to God.
Somehow, people with mental illnesses, have the hardest time of it, in reconciling their belief against their illness. They start believing, and I will tell you that in many cases doctors are no help with this, unless they happen to also be believers. That is that their belief & the illness must be mutually exclusive. Meaning that you can't belief in Christ Jesus and be ill at the same time, or that belief is the byproduct of the illness. Especially if it's with schizophrenia. I ask you. Why must this be so? Did that first time you came to the Lord, and recognized yourself as a sinner, and that Jesus Christ died on the Cross for you, and rose again. Has that one moment somehow changed? Did it not happen? What part of your illness have to do with this recognition? Why are others with this illness and other illness', still believers in Jesus Christ, when you have chosen not to be?
Now, you can continue to choose/believe that it was the illness that made you believe that moment to be true, or not. Just don't stand on the belief that it was an illness that made you believe. That belief & illness must somehow require one or the other to be true, and not both. This is a falsehood, of an enemy that has no Love for you, and likes you just where you are and does not want you have Jesus Christ as part of your life. To be your life.
If you can't even recall that first moment in time, when you came to the Lord. Then you must ask yourself, will, believing in Jesus Christ as your Savior change the illness you have? Maybe, yes, maybe no, even as the future is still to unfold for you. I would just hope, pray, and ask that you include Jesus Christ in it. One can easily look at the world and realize that there is no hope to be had there. Even as the world crumbles, and people start grasping at straws, or whatever new thought makes itself available to try or even numb themselves to everything else, because it says that this "life" is all there is. Yet, one truth that has stood the test of time that is available to all, and has changed a world and each person who believes. And that is that Jesus lived, Died on the Cross, and Rose Again! You either believed this at one time or did not.
However, keeping oneself parked in one place as everything else passes by, may seem the best recourse at the moment, but to everyone regardless of the condition they happen to be in when their turn comes up will have a choice to make. Accept Jesus Christ as their Savior or reject His gift freely given.
I will pray for you.
With all that being said, I truly am happy that you are here and welcome you once again to Talk Jesus!!!!
With the Love of Christ Jesus.
Nick
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But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Corinthians 12:9