How do you keep faith in God if you are so sad all the time?

[Anonymous No.16006750]

I don't know how, when life is so sad (or you feel so sad or unhappy for so long) that you can believe in a good God protecting you and all that. How do you do it?

[Anonymous No.16006838]

Romans 8:28
>And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

[Anonymous No.16006853]

>>16006750
>I don't know how
There’s your problem. You never had true faith to begin with, so when something bad happens, you go a whoring to your idols to comfort you instead of coming humbly to God and relying on him for your strength in your time of need. As God himself states (2 Corinthians 12:9):

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

[Anonymous No.16006877]

>>16006838
I can think "rationally" that he's good, but if I feel awful so often, how can I stay optimistic?

>>16006853
If I think I have faith, but I actually don't, how do I obtain "true faith"?

[Anonymous No.16006946]

>>16006877
Reading the Bible and understanding it’s wisdom is essentially the best way to build a stronger faith in God. Also, continued prayer and humbly coming to God to strengthen you. God has already told you everything you need to know in the Bible. Now you just have to read it.

[jesus No.16008450]

>>16006750
degenerate has been lied yet sticks to the lies and waits for miracle out of an anus.

[Anonymous No.16008455]

>>16006750
Stop masturbating. Pray more. You'll feel better, I promise.

[Anonymous No.16008924]

>>16006750
Psalm 22

[Anonymous No.16008948]

>>16006750
Because I'm not a woman or a little baby

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>>16006750
>Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
-Ecclesiastes 7:3-4

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 42:7-11

[Anonymous No.16009002]

>>16006750
pray

[Anonymous No.16009034]

My current sorrow is nothing compared to the happiness that is around the corner.. I will be able to find my purpose soon.

I refuse to let go of the sights
To forget the laughter and mirth
I choose to not leave Earth

[Anonymous No.16009618]

Isn’t that the point of faith?

My motto is from all sadness comes learning. Also it’s always darkest before the dawn.

[Anonymous No.16009929]

>>16006750
You haven't experienced true joy, nor are you ready for it. When God decides you have learned the lessons you need to learn he will bless you. Personally, I experienced a lot of misery in my early life. But had I not learned from it I would have ruined the gifts God has given me (my wife and child). Pray and talk to a priest about what God is trying to show you

[Anonymous No.16009934]

>>16006750
/lit/ - now a self help group for depressed religitards

[Anonymous No.16011263]

>>16006750
I take refuge in the words of priests around me, they motivate me on every mass and every confession I partake in.

Last week my priest was really comforting, he said I should keep in mind that the Lord never gives out crosses are too hard to bear. Moments like that make it easier.

[Anonymous No.16011588]

>>16008996
>>16009618
I'm gonna be a fuckin genius then.

[Anonymous No.16013084]

>>16006750
You don't :^]

[Nemo !!GgBWHLRiayD No.16013122]

>>16006750
This world is largely ignoble, and crudely alien to God, therefore, He is not actively concerned with what transcurs in it, only finalistically so, in/through Spirit: one activates God's Grace upon reaching the limits of one's noble potential --with faith, and by work; anyone who claims the contrary is either myopic, or blissfully ignorant regarding what it feels like to be surrounded by unjust death everyday; this is why you should be as suspicious of those who promote suffering --rather than overcoming-- as of those who have everything handed to them.

No noble individual deserves to suffer, rather, it is the current conditions, and circumstances, of this kosmos, which necessitate, and force, one's suffering.

[Anonymous No.16013361]

>>16006750
Mt 11, 28-30

[Anonymous No.16013385]

>>16006946
>God has already told you everything you need to know in the Bible.
source

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>>16011588
There are also many exhortations to rejoice and be of good cheer.

>Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
Psalms 68:3-4

A merry heart does good, like medicine,
But a broken spirit dries the bones.
Proverbs 17:22

In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33