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Hi there.
Has anyone any thoughts on this:
I try to follow Christ well, be faithful to Him and His Church.
I pray; read Scripture; read lots of books; and follow almost everyword and movement of our great new Pope, Benedict XVI.
But I also suffer from bouts of depression, panic attacks, intense loneliness and as you may see from another thread - impulse buying.
It doesn’t matter how much resolve I have to follow Christ, I can’t be a good Christian. It seems there is always something that I can’t resist and fall down somehow. I have been following Christ for 10 years now and progress seems very slow!
I know we all have sins, but it seems sin is always with me and I am always repenting and confessing.
Anyway, what advice would you give to someone who zealously desires to follow Christ faithfully, but always finds something to bring me away from him - whehter this be depression or loneliness etc.
Is the Christian life supposed to be this struggle?
Has anyone any thoughts on this:
I try to follow Christ well, be faithful to Him and His Church.
I pray; read Scripture; read lots of books; and follow almost everyword and movement of our great new Pope, Benedict XVI.
But I also suffer from bouts of depression, panic attacks, intense loneliness and as you may see from another thread - impulse buying.
It doesn’t matter how much resolve I have to follow Christ, I can’t be a good Christian. It seems there is always something that I can’t resist and fall down somehow. I have been following Christ for 10 years now and progress seems very slow!
I know we all have sins, but it seems sin is always with me and I am always repenting and confessing.
Anyway, what advice would you give to someone who zealously desires to follow Christ faithfully, but always finds something to bring me away from him - whehter this be depression or loneliness etc.
Is the Christian life supposed to be this struggle?