Casualties of this war… relationships, marriage, financial independence, home ownership, and so on Seems the faster the drips are happening, the more
🧘Mental/Physical Health 🏋🏼♂️
Quickly things are falling apart personally. Been self-employed for more than 15 years, shrinking disposable incomes have left significant losses (more than $100k) in sales last year alone, forcing the sale of the family farm. Stress has now increased to a point my spouse drinks heavily everyday as an escape and I’m left being the “grown up” in our relationship. Lost more than 15 lbs since the holidays, lack of sleep, Tired of struggling with what seems no relief
Sure would appreciate prayers and any uplifting recommendations for an escape, if not just a momentarily.
Friend please don't take what I'm about to say as "holier than thou" like the pharisees in Jesus's time, there's nothing I loathe more. I feel like I've only been through the ringer my whole life, while knowing 110% God made in order to accomplish a great task, which I constantly feel like I fall short of. Everyone has it different, I'm not comparing our struggles and strife's at ALL. But the point being, you already said all that ultimately matters. You're walking closer to God, which is everything. By no means does that entail that life gets easier, quite the opposite if you look at it biblically. But when you realize how short our existence truly is in the grand scheme of things, and this pain is all temporary, and all that it comes down to is your salvation and nothing else. It becomes a little easier. Not saying it's a substitute and remedy, we're human, it's supposed to be like this. It's natural for us to hurt like this, it will always be hard, it's normal. But hang in there friend, this won't last for forever, no matter how it goes, how hard it gets, God has a place prepared for us where we're at peace for once and the pain is gone.
"You're walking closer to God, which is everything. By no means does that entail that life gets easier, quite the opposite if you look at it biblically. But when you realize how short our existence truly is in the grand scheme of things, and this pain is all temporary, and all that it comes down to is your salvation and nothing else. It becomes a little easier."
Wise words fren.
In my experience this is not taught by most church leaders - in fact, the opposite is taught (although they will deny it), and this is an enormous source of angst and confusion for many.
Apologies for the late response, but you are 100% on the mark. This is the thing though, it can not be any other way. This is how it's always been, even Jesus always fought the pharisees and high priests. Scripture says Satan is God of the earth (because he's allowed to be of course). It's always been like this since the fall, all born in sin. So to people awake such as us by Gods grace, we see through the corruption on every level, emphasis on the church. Now imagine the normies and their views, their reality seems unfathomable. Makes sense now how Q didn't want to initially declass more but changed their minds, normies can barely handle the current awakenings in every sector which we're used to by now