Question:
Christians, the hardest battle one has, is find God after they've sinned against him,is this true?
2011-04-21 09:33:32 UTC
because I seen people who believed in God, but when they've sin so much, they refused to go back to God, do you think these people have a chance to find God Again? later and peace
Six answers:
2011-04-21 09:50:15 UTC
I don't think it's a matter of "finding" Him. It's more a matter of having the guts to step up and admit the wrong that you've done, and return to Him in shame. And after that, the difficulty is in overcoming the personal guilt of wondering how God could possibly take you back freely even after the horrible thing that you've done. But the truth is, God never leaves anyone. He is like the father of the prodigal son. The lost son didn't really have to "find" Him. He knew exactly where his father was... the same place that He'd always been. But in order to come back, that son had to admit that what he was doing wasn't working, and that he had sinned, and he had to be willing to admit his folly, humble himself, and be willing to return to his father in shame. That is the difficult part. And then after that, the battle is with realizing that yes, He does still love you just the same even after the bad things that you have done. God says that our sins are not only forgiven but forgotten. As far as the east is from the west He has removed them from us. But from our limited human understanding, it always feels like we are one mistake away from Him giving up on us and leaving us forever.



Personally, though, at least in my life, the hardest thing hasn't been coming back to Him after screwing up. Yes, it is indeed hard to do that, but because I generally have a desire to do the will of God, it usually becomes obvious very quickly when I have wandered too far, and I love that feeling of rushing back to God and finally making things right again. It's like coming home. But the really hard thing for me to do has been staying there once I'm finally back. Because that process of falling away is nearly invisible. Our enemy seems to be an expert at getting me to take a series of tiny compromises that I don't think could possibly hurt me, and then before I even know what's happening I find myself miles away from God not believing that I let myself get to that point again. Breaking that cycle, which I have tried and failed to do numerous times, has by far been the hardest thing for me to do.
2016-04-30 06:42:50 UTC
Part of forgiveness is REPENTANCE on the part of the offender. Saying "I'm sorry" could me that a person genuinely feels bad for offending or that their only regret is that they got caught. Repentance (change) implies a personal acceptance of the wrong to the point of making a serious effort to change and NOT do the offense again. If a person starts each day by punching you in the nose, it would get old pretty soon. You can tell them how much it hurts, bleeds, leaves bruising and how many times they've actually broken your nose, but none of this will matter, unless they get to a point where they see the offense from their victim's and God's perspective. That's when "I'm sorry" truly becomes "I'll change". See, you can forgive to a point, but if people continue an offense, forgiveness is no longer possible, because it's a habit or lifestyle and not just an offense. It's then offensIVE. God's the same way. God hates sin, but if we willfully continue a particular sin, He knows that in our hearts, we don't REALLY mean that we're sorry. We're merely using forgiveness and grace as a "get outta hell free" card (which it is NOT). Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But we can NEVER fool God.
Goethe's Ghostwriter
2011-04-21 09:37:40 UTC
Letting go is the hardest; even the Prodigal found his way back to his father. Many more people simply refuse to allow G-d to direct their lives (not control), and waste pointless energy trying to control others and "destiny". Work hard but stop worrying, folks.
Dr. Eric vonAnderseck
2011-04-21 09:53:15 UTC
Only those that carry His likeness in the soul are born of Him, and these are those that sin not. Satan is the kingdom of sin which is ignorance and death. Sin stands in the law for condemnation; while faith stands in Christ for righteousness. The kingdom of God is Righteousness but the kingdom of Satan is iniquity. Iniquity is the state of the soul and wickedness is the expression of that knowledge which sinners use to justify the imagination and results in ungodliness (void of life and fruit). Satan is the king of the air (vanity) which possesses no substance in the heart for peace. Truth and Grace are the sanctified tokens of Christ that carry substance for faith and brings the soul to rest and peace. God provided a covenant for our faith to be perfect through Jesus Christ.



You cannot sever the Blood from the Covenant http://youtu.be/V3Rikl9r1IU



The Seed of the inheritance in the conscience http://youtu.be/7ZSNQHYEHL0



Why am I here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIEvaXbVG…



Do you Know Jesus http://www.second8thweek.org/content.php?id=42



Return to God http://www.second8thweek.org/content.php?id=22



Grace http://www.second8thweek.org/content.php?id=173



How do you define life

http://www.second8thweek.org/content.php?id=81



The Second Covenant part 1

http://www.second8thweek.org/content.php?id=87



2012

http://www.second8thweek.org/content.php?id=197



God’s Time-line

http://www.second8thweek.org/content.php?id=231
2011-04-21 09:36:53 UTC
It just occurred to me why there are easter eggs. We teach kids to go looking for them under bushes and such just like those sinners have to go lookin for god.



god, god! come out come out wherever you are!!!
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2011-04-21 16:01:13 UTC
Yes it's hard but that doesn't mean they can't. It might be hard to go back to Him but you can still go back to Him. They just have to make that choice.


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