Hello! I am 18, from Jamaica but currently in the uk, my boyfriend is almost 17 and is in America, we have been Ldr for almost 2 years, his parents separated a few months ago and there were some ups and downs, he was doing good with the Lord, but he has gotten depressed, and is often in a bad mood, don't want to talk about God or do bible study, his friends are very very bad influence but he is kind of a push over so he doesn't want to move away from them out of fear of them treating him bad, the only time he wants to talk about God is after church when he feels the holy spirit then after a few hours it's gone and he is in a bad tired mood, today I found out one of those friends took him up to the mountain and he is mediating to open his chakura, I am very scared for him I love him and want to marry him one day, but as a man of God he hardly shows him being a man of God. He has a lot of energy for games, and things that doesn't have to do with God but things that have to do with God he is lazy and uninterested, he says it takes too much "spiritual energy " please help me I am very worried.
Good day, Puddingdear,
We are on the cusp of the Lord coming to gather His church. And I'm not just saying that, or being hopeful (even though I am) but because of all that is going on in the world. Once that takes place, then everyone who is not gathered will be on the earth and exposed to God's wrath which will come via the seals, trumpets and bowl judgements. Even the technology for the mark of the beast is here and is being used. That alone should raise red flags on how close we are to the Lord's appearing and our being gathered. Sounds like your boyfriend needs to be reminded of what is coming.
I would also bring up something else that involves you as well. If you are just boyfriend and girl friend and not married, but you are being intimate with each other, then you are living a sexually immoral life, which would also keep you from being ready when the Lord comes to gather His church. If that is the case with you and him, then you need to repent of that as well until you commit yourselves in marriage and he needs to turn back to walking in faith. And when when we confess our sins, scripture says that the Lord is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness.
Jesus warns us to be watching and ready so that day (the time of God's wrath) does not close on us like a trap:
"Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
The 'carousing, drunkenness and the cares of this life' are in reference to going back and living according to the sinful nature. The way of escaping the time of God's wrath, is to be living in faith, watching and ready, so that when He appears you will be changed immortal and glorified and caught up with the rest of the church. But if you are willfully living according to the sinful nature, then that day will close on you like a trap.
I think that your boyfriend needs to hear this. If he can't be convinced by reasoning, then maybe it needs to be done through the fear of God's coming wrath. And the time is getting closer and closer for the Lord's appearing to gather the church. Believe me, you don't want to be on this earth when God begins to pour out His wrath via the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments.
