A few days ago I gave you a question that was posted here and asked that we work on it together. You can read the original post and all the comments here. Thanks to everyone that posted. You guys did a great job on this one I wish we had been sitting face to face. I would have enjoyed the discussion. Thanks as well to some of you who wanted to play along but you didn't want me to post your responses because you thought you might be wrong. Hey - I might be wrong too and I'm about to give an answer. We really can work on this together. Next time don't be afraid.
Okay, I'm going to assume that you all clicked the link above and you remember the question. I'll address my answer to the person who asked the question.
Since you didn't e-mail me and I couldn't talk to you directly I want to start by making sure you know that I'm sorry you are feeling so unloved. It sounds like you have had a lot of difficult circumstances in your life - I'm sorry.
The way you end your post indicated that you believe that whatever we get out of life is what God intended for us to have. You said that immoral relationship you are in that is "another failed attempt to be loved and confirmation that God made some of us to not to ever be. " Since you are in so much pain I hate to start out disagreeing. But I totally disagree with your premise that we get out of life what God intended us to have. I also disagree with the poster that indicated that when we get bad stuff out of life that it comes from Satan.
If you want an idea of what God wanted human beings to experience read the first few chapters of the Bible (Genesis 1-3) and then read the last two chapters of the Bible (Revelation 21-22). It's clear that God's intention was for this world to be a perfectly safe place for human beings to experience loving relationship with Him and each other. But love can not be mandated, it can't be animal instinct - love must be freely chosen. So unlike animals God gave human beings freedom to choose. We can choose to love Him and love others or we can choose to love ourselves and use others and hurt them. I don't have room here to get into it but Satan can not make anything. He also can't make human beings do anything. He can only tempt us with what's already in us and He tempts us to choose to turn against God and other human beings.
I know this has already gotten too long in short I believe the wrongs you have suffered in life - the way you have been made to feel unloved is because of willful choices people have made. Choices to turn away from the love that God offers to them - that they could then in turn give to others. They instead choose to turn toward themselves and to use and hurt you. You have been damaged by those choices that you were not meant to experience. It also sounds like YOU are now making the choice of turning from God and toward yourself. I take that from your description of your current relationship as "immoral." When we turn from the choices God would have us make and turn toward ourselves we often feel unloved because we have turned from the source of love. Right now you could decide to turn from those choices and turn to God. As you do He will begin His work of redemption. And over time you will see that you have always been deeply loved by Him. And He will lead you to people that will love you in the way He designed as well. I would stll love to talk to you off the blog. Either face to face or at least in private e-mail.
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