Spiritual Amnesia

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Hey all.

I’ve been to confession today, which was awesome, and I went there with my usual bounty of faith - I knew who Jesus was, knew who Mary was and knew what I knew about my faith.

But when I got home, I couldn’t find God anymore! It is really ticking me off, because there is a blank spot in my soul, where I am forced to question, ‘Yea but… what is God?’, ‘I know God loves me, but that is only because I have been told as such… have I actually experienced His love?’, ‘Is there any reason for me to say ‘yes’ when I can just as easily, with my own volition, say ‘no’?’

I really don’t want to feel like this. I want to do more than say I love God. I actually want to love God, and saying it should only be a natual progression from that love, not the other way around.

If anyone else has gone through a similar crisis, please let me know.
 
Hey all.

I’ve been to confession today, which was awesome, and I went there with my usual bounty of faith - I knew who Jesus was, knew who Mary was and knew what I knew about my faith.

But when I got home, I couldn’t find God anymore! It is really ticking me off, because there is a blank spot in my soul, where I am forced to question, ‘Yea but… what is God?’, ‘I know God loves me, but that is only because I have been told as such… have I actually experienced His love?’, ‘Is there any reason for me to say ‘yes’ when I can just as easily, with my own volition, say ‘no’?’

I really don’t want to feel like this. I want to do more than say I love God. I actually want to love God, and saying it should only be a natual progression from that love, not the other way around.

If anyone else has gone through a similar crisis, please let me know.
Yes, I have gone through the crisis. Here is the passage that got me through it–Matthew 25: 31-46.
Recognizing that Christ is IN all of us is a start. Then when we obey His commandment to LOVE ONE ANOTHER, we are actually loving God.
 
Some refer to that “loss of God” feeling, as the Dark Night of the Soul. I too, have experienced what you describe during my lifetime. I think most of us do, at one point or another. Hang in there. Ok?

You ask… “what is God?”. The simple answer. God is our Creator… and through the love and saving grace of Jesus… God is also our Father. We are His children, by adoption. This is made very clear in two places in the Gospels… where Our Lord instructs us to call God “Father”. (Matthew 6:9-13, Luke 11:2-4). I believe the correct interpretation of the word Jesus used… “Abba”… is “Daddy”. God is our Daddy!

And yes indeed, you have experienced God’s love… as we all do. The very fact that we exist… that we breathe… is proof of God’s tender love and care. St. Paul tells us… “For in Him we live and move and have our being…” (Acts 17:28).

I can hear the sincerity in your words, when you say that you want to LOVE God… not just say you love God. Well, Our Lord told us how to do that… too.

“If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Advocate to dwell with you forever, the Spirit of truth Whom the world cannot receive, because it niether sees Him nor knows Him. But you shall know Him, because He will dwell with you, and be in you.” (John 14:15-17).

So, I would think… that in order to show God that we love Him… we must exercise the free will He gave us, and CHOOSE to follow His commandments. It’s that simple, really. I hope this helps some. God bless.🙂
 
" I really don’t want to feel like this. I want to do more than say I love God. I actually want to love God…"

I was feeling the same way. Then a priest told me to spend some time in front of the Blessed Sacrament. I did it. It made a huge difference. When I went the first time, I thought that out of all the people in the city where I live, why was there only a couple of people in adoration? Also, I felt sad for myself and all others that we don’t know what we have in front us. God is present. Why didn’t I have to have push my way in the door? There should have been millions of people trying to see and be with God. When we die, we hope to go to heaven and to be with God. Why isn’t others, including myself, spending every minute possible to be with our Lord? Then it hit me, how blessed I was to have this time with God. Thousands and thousands of people are to busy or don’t care to be with God. Jesus gave me the grace to go adoration. That was the start of growing more in love with God.
 
thanks all. I was wondering, is God testing me? Did he take away my heart to see if I could still be faithful even though I have all this knowledge, and it is vain knowledge, that those words would ring in the heart he gave me?

I don’t hate him if He did. He died for me, apparently, though I didn’t see it when it happened, it apparently means that all is well with the world. I can quote scripture, I can give you catechesis, I may even be able to throw in some words of the popes, but it doesn’t mean anything. They are just words to me, I say Jesus is Lord, but how do I know he is Lord?

I think over the past hours, that I have forgotten what he feels like, what Mary feels like, and I just feel blank. Not repulsed, or saddened at my lack of faith, but a child who only goes on what is said around him. Helpless, blind to the world around him. He created the world? Did he? That’s nice. I like waffles!

Hmm… or it could be that Satan really has it in for me somewhere… I wouldn’t blame him, he wants something to hold on to when he falls…
 
ok I am sorted. I sinned, but I am just glad I realised it, and I am sorry for my sin, even if you don’t know it, please forgive me, my brothers and sisters.

I realised, that I went through a spiritual darkness. Then I came across the seven gifts and twelve fruits of the Holy Spirit. Then something rang out inside of me. I was heartbroken, because He has given me all this in the past, and he can give it to me still.

I also looked at the seven spiritual works of mercy, and I thought, ‘wait… I can do that???’ Yea, I can give counsel, I can instruct, for we are called to spread the gospel - the good news - the news of Christ - his life, his passion, death and ressurection - we are called to say God is here! This is the meaning of the word of Gospel, and it is pretty awesome.

I think it started when the priest who listened to my confession said, ‘yea but what is Christ to you?’
I was really flummoxed by that and I sought the past 36 hours trying to sort that out. I have sinned, and it took me a fall to realise how far I needed to look up.

Basically, I realised that to me, He gave me life, he has allowed me to live, he is my breath, and because Christ was also man, he is my breath, because he shared it with me - To me, Christ is life itself, and to deny Him, for me, is to deny that truth that I live, and I live because He loves me, and He loves me because He can. As a result, I love him, because, well, look how much he has done for me! I then realised how much the Magnificat applies to me, and how humbled I am because of it. I also realised how wonderful Mary is, yes I came back to Mary as well, because she herself realised this truth, and took on her task, because she realised that truth - that He loves us, that He is our breath, and if I can relate to that, and by the length of the post, how glad I am because of it, how wonderful Mary must have felt when it was time then, in her lifetime, and her role in such a wonderful thing!

Lastly, a thing I was conflicted about was the nature of Good and Evil, basically, I didn’t know what was Good or Evil, because if God is supposed to be good, and I don’t know God, then how can I know good from evil, I only have me to go on, and I doubt that very much. Yet, whenever we see good, there is God. In response to RAGGANDI, yea that helped, because it helped me to realise that being good, emulates God, because he is good, and therefore being good, loving one another, we are loving God, and it isn’t about ‘Good will lead us to God’, for someone who knows nothing of God, that is relative, because if he doesn’t know Him, then he can just as well be happy being bad. No, being good means allowing life to happen, it allows peace to happen, it allows love to be spread, and it means that we do not die, because evil devours itself, and that is not very logical, is it?

No, being good; loving, caring, peaceful means humanity can live, and by extension, it means God lives here in this world, so wherever you see suffering, there is God because of how you feel towards them - you will most probably mean to help them. This is what it means to be free - no restraints of evil. That is, no means to destroy ourselves, free from evil means free from fear, it means we have infinite breathing space, and that means we have eternal life. So that is what it means to be free, and to freely turn to God - it is to turn and say yes to love - life, itself.

I hope you can forgive me for my sin, not my ignorance or my suffering that I mentioned in the past two posts, I sinned right before this revelation. Sorry.
 
Hey all.

I really don’t want to feel like this. I want to do more than say I love God. I actually want to love God, and saying it should only be a natual progression from that love, not the other way around.

If anyone else has gone through a similar crisis, please let me know.
sure all the time
if you want to love God, love
love your family, not just the pleasant sensation of whooee I have a great family, but love them, even when they are most maddening or aggravating, and actively show your love by doing for them what you most dislike to do

love your neighbor even the grouchy guy on the corner with the barking dog, and the guy who cuts you off on the freeway

love the poor, beyond feeling sad when you see pictures of homeless kids and writing checks to charities, really love them and see them as Christ sees them, not as ragged, dirty, ignorant and obnoxious.

everytime you have this feeling of God being far away, find God in others and find a way to love and serve.

God is not a feeling. God is love and love is not a feeling it is an act of the will.
 
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