Given up friends

[Guest]

Due to all the upheaval and worries of covid, I am now drained of all strength. I used to have a thriving social life, close long-standing friendships and a fulfilling life. That's all gone. I don't even try any more and have lost contact with most of my friends. No church either. I just won't mix and risk infections, although I am fully vaccinated. 

It's not good. I am not happy in myself. I just have no motivation left. I focus each day just on my home, marriage and myself. I just don't want to talk to anyone. 

I do what I need, then read. In books I find distraction. This world holds no comfort or joy any more. 

Who can I tell? Surely nobody is interested. Only to Jesus I pray, asking Him to guide and strengthen me. 

 

[MrBear]

God listens

He hears you, I too have not been the social butterfly ? I once was,. I occupy my time with scripture reading and my job

You being here is great way to be with a support group, although we communicate with text we can still relate and encourage each other

The world is a broken place, there is no doubt about that, But we have a father that listens and is available 24/7 

He has led you here for a reason and  encouraging others and talking scripture to bring me closer to him is why he led myself here,. I encourage you to reach out and encourage your brothers and sisters as well, I get a good feeling in my heart when I think such a small thing as reminding people they are not alone might have a positive impact

And ask for prayers, nothing is too big or too small for our Father!, and there is power in numbers.. as a Christian I love to pray for those that need it

Im including you into that list!

SHALOM❤️

[johnthebaptist]

35 minutes ago, Melinda12 said:

Due to all the upheaval and worries of covid, I am now drained of all strength. I used to have a thriving social life, close long-standing friendships and a fulfilling life. That's all gone. I don't even try any more and have lost contact with most of my friends. No church either. I just won't mix and risk infections, although I am fully vaccinated. 

It's not good. I am not happy in myself. I just have no motivation left. I focus each day just on my home, marriage and myself. I just don't want to talk to anyone. 

I do what I need, then read. In books I find distraction. This world holds no comfort or joy any more. 

Who can I tell? Surely nobody is interested. Only to Jesus I pray, asking Him to guide and strengthen me. 

 

I'm wondering why you don't go to church and mix, seeing as how you are vaccinated.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, johnthebaptist said:

I'm wondering why you don't go to church and mix, seeing as how you are vaccinated.

You can still get and spread covid, despite vaccination. Life has changed for a long time to come. 

[LearningToLetGo]

Try your best to live without fear. Trust in the Lord to carry you through difficult times.

[johnthebaptist]

2 hours ago, Melinda12 said:

You can still get and spread covid, despite vaccination. Life has changed for a long time to come. 

But you aren't supposed to have as serious symptoms if you've been vaccinated. My life has hardly change at all.

[Starise]

5 hours ago, Melinda12 said:

Due to all the upheaval and worries of covid,

Not minimizing the extent of the effects, neither am I going to claim as Christians we can't have the victory over all of it. We can.

5 hours ago, Melinda12 said:

I am now drained of all strength. I used to have a thriving social life, close long-standing friendships and a fulfilling life. That's all gone.

Blessed are the weary for they shall find strength. A present tense condition does not need to affect a future outcome. No need to write off the rest of your life.

5 hours ago, Melinda12 said:

I just won't mix

This decidedly WILL perpetuate the issues that are bringing you down. 

5 hours ago, Melinda12 said:

It's not good. I am not happy in myself. I just have no motivation left. I focus each day just on my home, marriage and myself. I just don't want to talk to anyone. 

I think we've all been there at one time or another. Deep depression takes time to come out of. Listening to too much media propaganda can pull one down. Most of what's on the tube is dark unless you seek out better programming. If you only take what they are giving you it is a poor substitute for either totally accurate information or social interaction with those God puts in your path.

5 hours ago, Melinda12 said:

This world holds no comfort or joy any more. 

God has still put good things in the world He intended for us to enjoy in spite of the evil here." The world" has both good people and bad, both blessings and curses. As Christians we know this is not our home, yet we can enjoy being here at times and understand the bad things will eventually be eliminated.

5 hours ago, Melinda12 said:

Who can I tell? Surely nobody is interested. Only to Jesus I pray, asking Him to guide and strengthen me. 

 

Most assuredly yes, Jesus is our rock, our fortress. Yet God gives us friends and loved ones for good reason. One of which is to build one another up. More people care than you fully realize. You were worth enough for God to send His only Son to die for you. You were worth enough for God to come to you Personally to draw you to Himself. You were worth enough for Him to invest a place in heaven prepared for you. You were worth enough that God wants a relationship with you. 

[Guest]

I have given up inside myself Nobody around me realises how low I really am as I hide it very well. I will never harm myself  but I hold no hope or dreams left for anything but to get through each day. 

 

[enoob57]

One of the aspects of truly being born from above is the ability to live for there not here… as this passes away even the memory of:
Isaiah 65:17 (KJV)
[17] ¶ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
1 Corinthians 13:8 (KJV)
[8] Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Revelation 21:1-5 (KJV)
[1] And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
[2] And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
[3] And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
[4] And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
[5] And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

So as you remain fearful of that which is not being kept anyway~ it is no doubt as to why you are shrinking in depression! When God’s Word becomes more necessary than our daily food we know we have passed from this world and the death to God’s world of eternal life through faith in what God has said…

Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)
[1] Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
It is of the Faith delivered through His Word 
Romans 10:17 (KJV) [17] So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

that we are delivered from the fear of death
Hebrews 2:14-15 (KJV) [14] Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
[15] And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

My prayer for you is that you see this glorious deliverance from fear of death and experience life giving faith from His Word…
 

[Guest]

Just help me not to sink. The weight of cares right now is too heavy.