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"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Love is not rude, it does not seek its own, it is not easily provoked, it thinks no evil. Love does not rejoice in sin, but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails."
1 Corinthians 13:4-9
I would say give it time and space and concentrate more on your spiritual life especially since you said you were going to get baptized soon
And trust that God is watching over you at all times, ready to receive you with open arms when you repent and also helping you to set right what you did wrong... God will take care of you, just have faith and pray
God Bless
Please pray for me
i have only a little time right now, but want to say that sometimes we have to say to God, 'whatever happens i will accept it' and then let God have His will. this is what Jesus said before he laid down his life and went through terrible pain. i know it is not easy, i did this recently about a really horrible situation at work. the pain continued but i also had a lot of peace from God which really revived me. 'we share in His sufferings to share in His glory'. i will pray for you :)
please pray for me, i will for you :)
god bless,
chris
i am not an expert on this, but psalm 26(27):14 says 'wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.'
i have met people who have waited years for their estranged children to get in touch, i myself couldn't get in touch with my half-sister for more than 10 years, and it was really hard waiting, knowing she was out there somewhere but not knowing how she was.
i also waited a long time to join the coptic church, every time i watched everyone take communion, it was really hard not joining in. a friend of mine waited longer, 2 years, until she found a priest who accepted that her husband (not a Christian) would never agree to her change of religion and arranged for a discrete ceremony for her without him there.
i and many other people have found that this waiting time, when we are crying out for God to act, although it is painful, brings us closer to God.
do you know how long God waited for you (or me) to turn to Him in repentance? and every time He sees us commit sin or encourage another person not to care about God or receive His love, how much it hurts Him? Jesus nutured and encouraged peter for 3 years, even predicting he would lead the church, and then had to suffer the pain of being denied by him, even as Jesus went through His fiercest suffering.
so we really do 'not have a high priest who is unable to sympathise with our weaknesses' (hebrews 4:15), He truly understands and will strengthen us as we turn to Him and say 'not my will, but yours be done, Lord'
indeed, we 'share in His sufferings that we may also share in His glory' (romans 8:17)
so when we accept that God chooses to let us wait and when we are thankful that we have this honour of sharing in His sufferings, this is how we can start coping better with our waiting time.
it's not just theory, i tried it myself and found that every time i confessed my angry thoughts towards God and accepted again His path for me (sometimes i had to repent many times a day) that i started to grow in His peace and people said 'how can you be so calm when your boss is angry with you, family misunderstand you etc etc..?' and the answer was, i wasn't this calm last week but, alhamdulilah, God is teaching me to trust Him and wait on Him.
so i pray that God will teach you many beautiful things and fill you with His love as you wait and pray and try to stay true to Him and His word.
may He have mercy on us all.