Does God Understand My OCD?
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- If you’re looking for Biblical teachings on how to overcome religious OCD (aka scrupulosity), you’re in the right place. I’m a follower of Jesus Christ and I’ve struggled with religious OCD myself. I have three degrees in theological specializations, so I approach this topic purely from a spiritual perspective, but I recognize that religious OCD has a considerable amount of overlap between spirituality and psychology. While I support and strongly recommend medical/psychological interventions, it is outside the scope of my expertise to offer psychological counseling of any kind. The information provided on my channel is not intended to be used as a substitute for professional diagnosis and treatment, but rather for educational and informational purposes only.
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It’s the fear that He will punish us.
Yep I've been there . Anxiety, depression, sadness, stress , chronic stress headaches, religious ocd. Yep its miserable. I think people with non ocd have bad thoughts they are just momentary. Ocd is scary because those thoughts stick. Alot of the fear of ocd isn't the thoughts themselves but deep down your scared they will never go away for your entire life. Deep down that's some of the fear and or sadness as well. On a side note logically whether a thought is bad or good a truly bad thought is not canceled out by forcing yourself to have a good thought or having a good thought to prove to yourself that your thought was truly good and not bad. Your just making your ocd worse by feeding it. A truly bad thought is also part of being human unfortunately . It happens. Having faith in your heart in christ takes care of all that. You just keep moving. If you start feeling really bad anxiety and or depression is where you need to get help. Anxiety that is chronic or depression is more a physical ailment than anything else. Like having a stomach bug. This is just a physical problem in your brain unfortunately. Take care people. God bless
Hi Jamie. I realized that Jesus totally understands me, the real me, even when I don't understand myself and why I am bipolar type 2 and have religious OCD. He's my example and has been through trials and temptations too, but never sinned! I'm so grateful for God!
This video moved me to tears. Thank you Jaimie
2 Tim 1: 7: "For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of Love, and of a sound mind."
This was a huge blessing to me 💕
When I think of God caring most about our hearts, I think of it like the lesson from psychology that life does not work if we are trying to control all the *outcomes* around us. We do a lot better if we control our *processes,* our *responses* to things.
It is attractive to each of us, at different times of our life, to understand that for our daily lives while sinking all our outcome control into prayers - like we ask God for the things it's impertinent to ask humans for.
But God cares about our processes more than our outcomes. He cares more that we care about our sin than the exact number of sins. And just like improving our internal processes works better than controlling others' outcomes, so too will improving our processes around thoughts result in a better life than hoping all the negative outcomes surrounding our thoughts go away.
I have, over the last 6 weeks or so, tried to put this into my prayers by praying more for my processes - what I put into a situation - than for my outcomes - what precisely results from a situation. Since God cares more about my heart, I should pray more about my heart.
And God cares about the tender, concerned OCD heart. We are bothered by our negative outcomes - the intrusive thoughts and the struggles surrounding them - but God is looking at the concern and going, "do you see my servant?"
Thankyou for putting my mind at ease by reminding me what God is actually like
I felt the need to share this, a Christian cannot commit blasphemy or the unpardonable sin. If you're living in fear of one day losing your salvation please listen to Pastor Joseph Prince on how to HOW TO WIN IN SPIRITUAL WARFARE. He too had OCD of this theme and it blessed me.
Thank you so much, Jaime. This was definitely a blessing to me.
After 4 yrs of marriage. I went into religous ocd. A pain ful life. Uncontrollable unwanted thoughts. Medication cant cure. Suffering for 15 years and more life is trauma. No peace of life
Thank you so much for what you do. May God keep using your life.
Very, very much appreciated Jamie! certainly a blessing to me, I really appreciate you for sharing these great videos with the world! I can't thank you enough for all the things that I've learnt from your blogs and videos! God bless you and all your dear ones!
Thank you for the ministry that you're doing for people struggling with this. I don't have ocd (at least i don't think so), but you have helped me a lot as someone who ruminates.
Good thing that you mentioned a soft disclaimer in the beginning that the main audience of this video are OCDers. Some of the things that can be said when discussing this issue can easily be misinterpreted if not put in perspective.
I also read the same description of God in Revelation, "He judge with justice" ❤
My ocd is thoughts connected to an action, I have to connect the thought with an action- it is debilitating. This is putting trust in my repetitive motion, like superstitious due to fear, convetness, and idolatry. This is sin to me then I feel guilty.
Thank you. Just what I am going through ❤
I suffer Religious ocd for more than 15 years. My life is become terrible. I feel fear when these come. I can't enjoy my life like others do. I take fluvoxine for more than 15 years. I'm 58 now. It's hopeless.
Yes duty, the duty is there. So much duty.
It really scares me that God knows thoughts and my heart. When someone says God knows your heart I get fear because “That is what I am afraid off.” I also get thoughts during prayer and other times, suggesting something I should do or say and it really terrifies me because it’s not something I want to do or say at that time because it’s confrontational or could cause me great discomfort, or cause hurt feelings. So I can be in great anguish and turmoils as I ruminate forever and exhaust myself trying to figure out how to do it, playing it out in my head and looking at all the scenarios that might happen if I say it this way. Then I see possible problems that could arise so I think and of a different way look ways of doing it saying it. I weigh all options and in the end I can’t decide so I say let me think about it to buy time. Then I get great fear and torment becauseI am afraid that I have disobeyed God. I get so many things like that popping in my head that I should do or say and it just continually causes me to feel like I failed because it’s not too pleasant to do and it fills me with shame and guilt because it feels like I am letting God down and I am not obedient therefore God is displeased and I then have trouble praying because those things come out and new ones which causes me to be always be in a state of fear guilt and shame
It's crazy how seeing someone struggle with the same thing looks different outside looking in.
I'll tell you what my Christian friends told me, then I'll add some personal thoughts.
Firstly, as a Christian, your main duty is to build a relationship with God. When you mentioned how you were afraid of God being in your head, it reminded me of the passage of how Adam and Eve hid from God in the bushes, or how Jesus likens sinners as those who loved darkness and feared the light for revealing their dirtiness. But something I've learned growing up is that it's best to start somewhere than nowhere, and God promised that anyone who sincerely repents will be covered up and made "as if they had never sinned"
So to take the "white clothes" symbolism which the apostles spoke of, sin being the filth, and the blood of Jesus being the strongest bleach known to man, you may think "But I'm not really repenting if I want to keep rolling in mud and coming back for a quick clean, just to start over again! God will surely know I am abusing His grace and hate me!"
Guess what? Thats your conscience, God is pleased you come back to Him- of course He'd like you to stop sinning and getting yourself dirty, but He also knows that the reason you keep doing it is because you haven't really understood what Jesus truly gave you on the cross.
You were never meant to handle your sins alone, because no man but Jesus could resist all temptations. Instead, you offer it up to God out of love. "Father, I don't want to upset you by doing (insert sin), please take it away from me."
I used to masturbate and watch porn and every time I would feel like crap and pray to God (although I didn't know it at the time), saying "God, if you don't want me to do this, take out this desire in me." And it wasn't immediate, but over months I just stopped getting the urge. I still get tempted here and there, but it's far more manageable than before.
The thing about OCD is that it complicates God. We perceive ourselves as doublefaced, which God is stated to dislike, but the truth is if we look outside ourselves, God sees how we struggle. He knows we fear Him, but perhaps to an unhealthy degree- and what I mean by that is imagine you rescue a dog. That dog is terrified, too terrified to bite you or steal your food, or even attack other dogs you may own, so in some ways, terror lends itself to obedience. But what's not so pleasing is when that dog is ALWAYS afraid. It tries playing with toys but is afraid of your presence, even after you've been feeding it, brushing it, housing it, etc. It never learns to trust you, it lives in constant anxiety around you, even though you've been trying to show the dog nothing but your good intent.
What we OCD-ers fall into many times is the idea that we do our "work" and present it to God. We may not be as obedient as some other Christians, but that doesn't mean God loves us any less or is more disappointed. He made us since the beginning of time, and He's known what kind of blunders and sins we would commit, but we have to have faith that God will mold us into wonderful Christians, not by us fighting our thoughts or trying to decipher what is sin coded and what is not, but asking God to remove what is unpleasing in His sight and empower us to walk in the light.
God knows you, will always know you, and has always accepted you regardless of what evil thoughts you may have. And who are we to disagree when the King of Kings says "You are my child"? He is the perfect parent who does not get offended, instead He is attentive, knowing when to grow and prune us at the right time.
And the best way to defeat OCD is simply not engage with panicked thoughts of sin or offenses. Because as a Christian, you can rest assured that if you ask the Father for directions in His way, He will deliver it with a great smile on his face.
I still struggle with questions of "Oh no, am I listening to my flesh or am I listening to God? Am I being Godly by doing this or am I being Human?" But what always restores peace to me is that God knew me since I was born, the things that happened to me that led me here, He already knows. He knows reasons I don't even know myself, and He delights when I try to please Him, and when I ponder whether I am doing good in His eyes.
But what He does not delight in is when I make our relationship a chore. A grading score or rubric to measure His love. He said He would always be there for us, and to always hope and count on Him, so I'm going to try and do just that. Should I ever get stuck in a "What if that was a sin? What if I'm being too prideful?" I'll remind myself, God is the only one who can judge me, I will trust myself in His hands, that each day I fall deeper in love with Him, and the deeper I fall, the more I will take to His words and understanding.
Hope my rambling helped even a little. I have full faith God wants nothing more than to cradle you and tell you to not be disheartened, because He is a consistent God who only wishes to lavish His love onto you.
Thank you 💜
Jesus loves you
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Oh that young man isn't me but it does certainly sound like what I am going through too.😢❤😢❤
Thank you!
Prayer never did a damn thing for me. I was suicidal until I took medication and max dose of Prozac. OCD was kicking me and taking me down to a dark place. What say you?
Please help, how bad have I been because I swear at with my mouth.
What if you thought the thought but don't really mean or want the thought.😔
Check out my latest video about "bad thoughts against God!" I think it might help!
😅Very helpful
Personally, it's been helpful not to label these automatic, passing thoughts that we don't have conscious control over as 'intrusive'.
Just thoughts.
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