I got this request for help and guidance from Caius, who writes:

“I used to attend the UCKG, I got married in the Church, but left because I was disappointed. Did I leave because some pastor helped himself to church money? Or because of an usher’s bad testimony? Or because I disagreed with some doctrine or campaign theme? Was it something I heard reported in the media? None of the above. I left for the same reason some bishops, pastors, staff, and church members also leave: They got disappointed with themselves, as they gave in to some feeling that took the place of their faith.
I tried to get back a few times, tried to change, but so far in vain! I am that person that you described in the video, with a few aggravating issues: Today I have a phobia of life, I wish I would just cease to exist (I just lack the courage to act on it), I just want to disappear, to become a beggar in some faraway city… And mind you that I live a pretty comfortable life — I own a house, a car, a business, have good health, intelligence, I’m married, don’t have any addictions, nor am I going through serious problems. I just don’t have any motivation or anything that makes me find this life interesting. I lost my faith, to be honest. Pray for me, and may God hear you!”

I replied to Caius, and asked permission to publish his e-mail, as I believe it could be of use to many:

Caius, I don’t think you’ve “lost” your faith. Faith is inherent to life, so if you’re reading this, it’s because you’re still alive and therefore faith is still in you. The problem is that this faith is being choked by something, and it needs room to “breathe”. The oxygen of faith is hearing the Word of God like a child — start afresh from the beginning.

In addition, being highly sensitive is like suffering from an emotional cancer. When we lose control of our emotions, especially the bad ones, they take over and compromise our spiritual health. Medicine offers no cure for cancer, unless all cancerous cells can be completely removed. The same applies to emotional cancer. We have to pull it out of us, stop feeding it, starve it, ignore it, despise it — until it loses all its hold of us and dies.

This is done through intelligence and reasoning. We must learn to question our emotions, and stay above them.

Emotions are not real things. They are just temporary feelings. How many emotions have you had in the past, and where are they today? They go as fast as they come — but the decisions we make last forever.

So Caius, use your head to run your faith and your life just as you have used it to run your business.

You will beat this. And I am praying for you.