I wish...

What is Your Wish For Narnia?

  • For Susan to return and believe in Aslan and Narnia.

    Votes: 5 71.4%

  • You kidding? I want to be in Narnia!

    Votes: 4 57.1%

  • For no evil or harm to be in Narnia.

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • None and/or Other

    Votes: 3 42.9%
  • Total voters
    7
  • Poll closed .
I wish:
I could make friends
I could keep friends
I could keep my temper in check
I wouldn't embarrass myself every time I let myself have fun
I would find something I enjoy more then sitting in front of a monitor screen
I could get rid of acne
I didn't smell like horse
I could do something better than my sister
my life didn't seem so hard when it actually not that bad
I could stop feeling sorry for myself and focus on people who have more important things to wish for
My room didn't always look like a hurricane passed through it
someone somewhere would understand something I'm going through
 
I wish that I get another chance in January. Omg, I'm so mad. It could have happened today and then they decided to not show up. >.<
 
I wish.......it was April already!! My friend just sent me a message she and her sister are coming to my country in April!!! YEAH!


@Jeff, you know you are a special person. A true and awesome son of God ;)

@Magsie: Don't give up! I know you can do it!!
 
ShadowKitty, you DID stimulate thought! I note particularly two things you said while I was offline:

>> God would tell me something

>> I could understand what God is trying to accomplish by acting as if He isn't there

These two are of course related to each other.

First, let me tell you that you're not the only one to have wondered whether God was on vacation. Job was wondering the same thing for a great part of the book which bears his name. But to give a couple SMALL doses of Scripture:

There's a verse in Proverbs that says, "It is the glory of God to conceal things, and the glory of kings is to search things out." Then there's a verse in Isaiah where the prophet says to God, "Surely Thou art a God Who hidest Thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior." So at least you can rest assured that I don't think badly of you for experiencing doubts; you're in good company, including more than one Apostle.

I realize that you may have run up against people who DO blame you for having doubts. If they're like the ones I've encountered, they'll browbeat you like this: "What do you MEAN, you aren't hearing from God? It's all YOUR fault for NOT LISTENING!!!!! God is chattering away every instant, so you have NO excuse for not hearing Him!!!" But with many if not most of these condemning types, if you could examine the "deep spiritual experience" they claim to be having, it would turn out to be along the lines of "I did look upon my wristwatch, and behold a mystery, THE LORD REVEALED UNTO ME that it was eight o'clock!"

God does speak, and in a variety of ways...but He speaks at His own discretion, rather than whenever we want Him to. If people are trying to make you feel inferior for not consciously sensing God as close as your sweater, THEY may be the insecure ones, trying to make themselves feel more spiritual by telling you YOU'RE not spiritual.

Even if no one is nagging you in this way, it still is true that God has His reasons why He keeps many of us waiting. Some things I've asked Him about, I had to wait more than a decade to have explained. But God is not actually ignoring us.



 
Thanks Copperfox :)
the thing is I've only felt God once in my life and that was at a christian camp I went to last year. I've tried really hard to feel him again but can't. I've tried not trying hard to bu that didn't work either. I've been reading my bible but I find it really boring and un-relating to what I'm going through. I've been praying but I just can't even imagine him saying anything back. Thank you for the verses and encouragement
 
Shadow_Kitty said:
Thanks Copperfox :)
the thing is I've only felt God once in my life and that was at a christian camp I went to last year. I've tried really hard to feel him again but can't. I've tried not trying hard to bu that didn't work either. I've been reading my bible but I find it really boring and un-relating to what I'm going through. I've been praying but I just can't even imagine him saying anything back. Thank you for the verses and encouragement
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I know exactly how you feel. When I go to summer camp, I feel God there all the time. I feel like he's right next to me and my praise and worship feels so real! But then... the spiritual high wears off when I get back home. And sometimes I just don't seem to figure out why I don't feel him as much. I eventually learned that it's all the noise in my life that's blocking Him out. Sometimes I'm so preoccupied in other things that God becomes barely a whisper. At Christian Camp we're surrounded by all things Christian, and we're able to tune in better.
I'd advise you to take about 10 minutes out of your day each day to just sit somewhere silent and just think. To open your mind and ears to hear what God has to say. It's not only good, it's pretty relaxing. That helps me a lot. :D
 
Shadow_Kitty said:
Thanks Copperfox :)
the thing is I've only felt God once in my life and that was at a christian camp I went to last year. I've tried really hard to feel him again but can't. I've tried not trying hard to bu that didn't work either. I've been reading my bible but I find it really boring and un-relating to what I'm going through. I've been praying but I just can't even imagine him saying anything back. Thank you for the verses and encouragement
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If anything just feel happy you've felt Him at all, I only think I do sometimes.
 
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