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Yes, you are right, bless you. I do need to make many distinctions with my feelings and what is the right, Godly, thing to do. When I am mistreated I am shocked because I know how I treat others so although I've lived in this world for 43 years, I'm taken back on why act this way. So then I excuse the behavior and justify it but accept it. Then when it continues even when I know I have adjusted myself I might mention it. Ok that probably isn't really true, what I do is put all fault upon myself by asking if I have done anything wrong, is there more I can do or just tell me what you want from me. So of course the behavior doesn't go away because I don't make them accountable. Lately, I let the bad behavior of others go on for a while then get completely crazy inside with anger, which spirals into further negative thoughts that I truly have a difficult time disbursing, and allowing the thoughts to linger. There are times that I say the lords prayer over and over again just to blanket my thoughts until I become exhausted. I thought I was a good and faithful christian for a long time, I'm very disappointed and confused that I feel I had never had Christ in my life all my life. I feel like all that I was, never was true. I feel this way, but I know it is not true, Satan wants me but I will die before I give him Tam. I don't mean I will take my own life but it's going to be a struggle for me. I have to learn that being upset isn't a sin, revealing those who are intent on harming others is not a sin, protecting myself from danger is not a sin, selecting to stay away from those who are physically and emotionally harmful to me is not a sin, saying no to things I don't agree with under God's law is not a sin, and being under the grace of god doesn't mean I will always be comfortable and I can try harder to live my own life even if it's new and strange. Yes, I just have to keep telling myself that.