Do you truly believe in God's unconditional love for you?

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Did you always believe this, or did you eventually find your way to this?

Why do I find it so difficult to believe fully with my heart? I accept it superficially intellectually…but I always feel like I’m just outside of His ray of light in the shadows unworthy to be a child of God.

It’s a cause of distrust, cynicism, faithlessness, doubt, despair, desolation, sadness.

But it also seems reasonable that God wouldn’t care about my life or what I do or what I feel, experience, or suffer. I’m just a nobody in a world of billions of souls past, present, and future.

I know what I’m supposed to do minimally as a Catholic…it just seems like everything I’ve done is a facade and that it doesn’t matter what I pretended to do because it amounts to nothing.

Where does one find trust in God’s love?
 
Have no other hope so yes,sometimes i asked myself why He hasnt acted earlier in my life ( i went trough hard life).I feel lonely,but i have only Him…hoping
 
Yes, since I was a child. My parents made sure I knew and believed this.
 
Sometimes I think, After purgatory, all will be fine…but I have to make it even to purgatory first…

All the failures and not measuring up to what is expected of me (definitely spiritually, but also with earthly affairs) seem to indicate that God doesn’t care about me. Every time my hopes are dashed, every time my hard efforts come to nothing but my coworkers succeed, it seems like God has abandoned me…or caused me to fail as punishment for my sins.

We’re not supposed to worry…but how can I not worry about getting fired? About having enough backup funds to take care of my aging parents.

God just seems angry and upset with me all the time
 
It took GENERATIONS and GENERATIONS to get YOU. Think as far back as you can… if anyone of your ancestors had not matched up with the one they matched up with YOU would not be here. AND… out of all the choices there were at the time of your conception, God chose YOU. There is no other combination that could make YOU and it’s because God loves YOU so much. YOU are no accident. You have been chosen. Please, talk to God and thank him for your life. Thank him for the daylight and the air you breathe. Thank him for all the gifts he has given you. Even if you have disabilities, which many of us have, there are still many, many gifts to be thankful for. Then talk to God and tell him you want to be closer to him. Ask him what he wants you to do. (Mostly he just wants you to love him and all his creatures…) Go to Eucharistic Adoration. He will make himself known to you.

It took me a while to get to this point as I went the long way around the barn. Praying for YOU!
 
I’ve struggled with it. I’ve done a lot of introspection on why I started to doubt and why what I had learned about God’s love as a child was true for everyone else, but not for me.
 
I’ve read a Catholic psychologist write about those with high expectations of themselves and others…and internalizing real and/or perceived failures

Apparently I’m prideful and despondent…what a lovely combination…
 
I have struggled with this. Sometimes when I don’t feel Him, it makes it harder to believe. Then I realize that He does it because He loves me, in order for me to grow without the consolations.

Just imagine you are the only soul in the entire universe. That’s how God sees and loves you. He does not love on a global level, but a personal level. He’s been waiting for you, and yearns desperately for your soul.
 
misstherese said:
. Sometimes when I don’t feel Him, it makes it harder to believe. Then I realize that He does it because He loves me, in order for me to grow without the consolations.
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Yeah, me too. One of the reasons we cannot judge our spiritual life by feeling.
 
misstherese said:
Just imagine you are the only soul in the entire universe. That’s how God sees and loves you. He does not love on a global level, but a personal level.
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That’s what I (and perhaps those who are on the anxious side) don’t really get. I always see myself looking in through a window at the happy people
 
I don’t think I ever have. I desire to someday. I’ve had many disappointments most of my life and though I can also intellectually accept God’s goodness, I am generally a very emotional person and struggle with ignoring this part of myself. I hope I never give up seeking Him though, despite my many failures on this journey.
 
I don’t know how he could love someone unconditionally if he’ll cast them into hell for aggravating his pet peeves.

That seems pretty conditional to me. And I don’t see how it could be love if willingly allowing someone to suffer for eternity. That doesn’t sound like love.
 
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I think it has a lot to do with how we usually imagine God as outside us rather than dwelling within us. If we abide in God and God abides in us, as Jesus was trying to tell us, then not only is God intimately interested in us but is also trying to live through us, We are each God’s special projects with whom the Holy Spirit engages.
 
NuclearReceptor said:
Did you always believe this, or did you eventually find your way to this?

Why do I find it so difficult to believe fully with my heart? I accept it superficially intellectually…but I always feel like I’m just outside of His ray of light in the shadows unworthy to be a child of God
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Thank you friend for sharing.

For me it was an uphill trail; but I can’t actually say I disbelieved it [though I lived for a time as if I had]

But I was Blessed with 12 years of solid Catholic Education; and at some point I was taught that “If I” [ME] was the only human being on Earth Jesus would still have become Incarnate man; endured His Passion and Rose from the dead JUST FOR ME… I have never forgotten that lessons and even with the indrecressions [such a nice word for Mortal sins:blush: of my younger years] I was always mindful that God was and IS on MY side.

His Grace, His Mercy and His Love brought me back into His Fold many years ago. What an awesome God we have:joy:

Thank YOU Jesus!
Patrick
Patrick
 
Rhubarb said:
I don’t know how he could love someone unconditionally if he’ll cast them into hell for aggravating his pet peeves.

That seems pretty conditional to me. And I don’t see how it could be love if willingly allowing someone to suffer for eternity. That doesn’t sound like love.
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This sort of statement would be better addressed on a new thread. But to address it shortly, we all make our own decisions. Just as prisons exist on earth for those who make bad decisions, as we rightfully call for justice on those who commit terrible crimes against man, there ought to be justice served for those who commit crimes against God.
 
Hidden somewhere, subconsciously, is the rejection of God’s grace…that’s what scares me.
 
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Rhubarb:
I don’t know how he could love someone unconditionally if he’ll cast them into hell for aggravating his pet peeves.

That seems pretty conditional to me. And I don’t see how it could be love if willingly allowing someone to suffer for eternity. That doesn’t sound like love.
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This sort of statement would be better addressed on a new thread. But to address it shortly, we all make our own decisions. Just as prisons exist on earth for those who make bad decisions, as we rightfully call for justice on those who commit terrible crimes against man, there ought to be justice served for those who commit crimes against God.
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Sure, sure. And when I screamed at my mom “I HATE YOU! I WANT TO GO LIVE WITH DAD!” She looked at me, sighed, sat down with me, and talked with me through all the troubles. She didn’t grab me and throw me into the fireplace.
 
I do believe it, even when I don’t understand why, or how. But I know that he is the only one that Loves me unconditionally.
 
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