Feeling Lost in Your Spiritual Life?

I have some posts that may help you if you find yourself not sure where your life is going, or where it should be going. These posts may be what you are looking for?

Feeling Lost Because You Are

Accept or Change your Life

Want More Out of Your Life

Feeling Lost In Your Own Life

Life Plan 101

If you are looking for general help with your life, one or more of these posts will help you get your life where you want it to be. One thing I have never touched on in these posts is feeling spiritually lost in your religious life. I wrote a post called: Dark Night of the Soul, an overview about going through the process of finding ones spiritual self, mainly through ego destruction you may be interested in.

An area I glossed over about until now, is feeling lost in your spiritual life from a Christian perspective. Feeling spiritually lost happens easily. With so many people telling you how, and what to believe it gets very confusing. What makes it more confusing is they all come on like midway Carnies at the County Fair. Step right up folks, I have what you are looking for. If this is why you are reading this post looking for an answer, perhaps this is a good post to find direction for problems of this type.

At first the new church is fun, then the finish starts to tarnish and the cracks start to show. At some point listening to what they say, it becomes apparent, this is the same song with a different melody.

Instead how about reading one thought what is important to being a Christian? The central theme of being a Christian is not about being pure or donating money. It is not about volunteering to clean your church. Those are important things, and should not be ignored, but are not one of the best reasons for being a Christian.

If you are or wish to be a Christian, the one fundamental reason you want to be a Christian is because you believe there is a God who is good and just. Because you know and accept there is a God, you also must accept that there is an anti-God named Satan who is the opposite of God.

That is what you should know before you consider anything else about being a Christian of any type. Knowing this, and keeping it forefront in your religious thinking is why you are living this moment as a Christian. Everything else in your life is secondary. Christian churches may merge or disappear. You may change churches yearly, or decide not to go to church at all. One day a fire might wipe out the building that was your church.

You are a Christian because for all your life there has been war fought between good and evil. Like it or not, you are a very important part of that war. You may not feel like you are a good Christian or a Soldier. You do not hear any gun shots, see any bombed out building, or dead bodies laying in the streets.

The war going on is for this world, and you must believe this above everything else about being a Christian. If you think there is no war, think about the poorest sections of your city. The gangs, drugs, the violence, and the hate. The burglaries, car thefts, and violent acts around you. You are a Soldier in this ongoing, never ending battle.

You think you are not any of these labels. Your friends are not any of these labels. Chances are your family do not fit any of these labels. So why are those other people, like you, but across the street or across town so destructive? Because of the battle for this world. Whether they actively chose sides, or are ignorant of their actions, they are part of the war. If they are the gang members, drug dealers, pimps, thieves, etc, they are not on your side of the war.

I am not a fan of preaching, and this sounds awfully preachy to me so that is all I will say about it. If you have not known before, now you know why you are a Christian. You were created to fight in the war. Everything else is in life is secondary to the battle.

What you do or do not do, and whether you are successful or poor is not important in the spiritual world. The only thing that matter is you do what you know is right for yourself, friends and family, neighborhood, and city. That is how you do battle in this war. The balance constantly shifts. We move closer to, and then a step away from destroying ourselves, and the earth.

Now you know why, and what you should be doing. When you get to the other end of your life, the question, ‘Did you do your part to make the world a better place by resisting evil?’, is the only question that matters. Sometimes answers come from surprising sources.

Feeling Lost in Your Own Life?

At some point in our life we all feel lost. We realize suddenly that we have no direction, plan or even an idea of our future. It dawns on us that we have been going through our days as they come with no thought to each and every day being our future in the making. Now at the moment we realize we have been coasting through our life, we feel lost and are not sure what to do.

Knowing we feel lost, or really are lost in life is the first step in finding our direction from our life compass. We each carry a life compass with us, but at times it becomes lost in our other baggage, and we misplace it.

When quiet time happens take some time away from distractions and think about what you have done with your life to date. What have you done that you really enjoyed? What have you done that you have not enjoyed or even been ashamed of? What have you done that you are proud of? What have you done that you are proud of and you would enjoy doing again?

There is no best path or direction anyone can give you for your life. The best anyone can do is use their life as an example, and provide possibilities you can incorporate into your life. Giving advice should be seen as others suggesting possibilities. In those quiet moments, think about al the possibilities for your future, no matter how silly they may seem at the moment.

None of the possibilities are silly, and all of them are possible. We are curious creatures, and we were made to search, question, and learn until our last breath, so nothing you can think of is outside the realm of your life possibilities.

Once you have a goal or direction in mind, start living your life towards that goal. Is what you are doing right now moving you towards your goal, or does it take you away from your goal? If it takes you away from your life goals is there anything reasonable you can do about it? Sometimes,  we have to take a detour to get where we want to go. If you get detoured, stop and chart out your course, you may be closer than you think.

Life is made up of challenges, both big and small. If there are no challenges in your life, you are either extremely fortunate, or you are flowing with the ebb and tide of life, and have decided that wherever life takes you is okay with you. Having an end goal however means that there will be obstacles in your path, and you will need to learn how to surpass them.

The journey of life is the main source of a full and happy life. Without an end goal and the journey to arrive at the place we wanted to get to so many years earlier is what life is all about. We set our life direction, and it is up to us to make choices throughout our day, year, and decade about whether we are on our chosen path or not.

Determining your life path and changing your mind next week is perfectly normal and is common in many peoples lives. Many multi talented people change their life course many times throughout their life, and live a full and happy life. Be cautious that changing direction often is not holding you in one place.

One caveat though if you wish to float through life and go in whatever direction life takes you. As life’s challenges or conflicts present themselves to you, and only serve to cause you frustration and unhappiness, it may be time to take a different approach or even a different path for your life because whatever you are doing is not working for you.

Make your plan, follow the direction of your life compass, and enjoy the trip. There are no right answers anyone can give you to your life. You are the only person who can decide your life path and how best to live your life. There are no right or wrong answers for your life until you explore the possibilities yourself.