So, what has helped you the most?
I mean . . .
anything that has helped you . . . been good for you . . . anything that helps you to have hope . . . encouraging . . . what you appreciate . . .
people who have been a good example for you . . .
anything . . . anyone . . . who has been good for you.
And I mean that I want you to be somehow encouraged and know God does want you and we love you and want you, and we have hope for you because of God being able to bless you and change you into being with Him in His love and His way He has us loving any and all people. I mean we can be family with God our Heavenly Father and with Jesus our Groom and with one another as God's family.
So, even if you feel and find there is no hope for you, do you know of Bible things and people who say there is hope for you?
What we feel can be very convincing but wrong. What is true
and trustworthy is in God's love and peace; so we shouldn't trust what is not in love and joy and peace of Jesus.
I can still have horrible things going on in me, about what people could do to me; but that is not God; so I don't trust that. There is horrible evil in this world. I was a horrible person > a bully and then a religious self-righteous screwball and jerk and that might have hurt people more than being a bully. Because I did not know how to love > I would act nice, but then people could find out I did not love them and did not want them > that could have been more cruel than being a bully.
There are people don't know how to love you; but with Jesus we can find out how to love and care for people, then we can help poor miserable and ruined people to find out how to love . . . with God, of course. So, first Jesus wants us to have God who is the most perfectly beautifully wonderful Being there is, and share with Him in His own love in us, and love Him with all we've got.
And Jesus has this hope for us; and Jesus knows; so there is hope, no matter how convincing our horrible stuff is to make us feel otherwise and have our attention elsewhere. Evil is that horrible, actually wanting to ruin us from hope and loving with God. So, do not allow evil to mess with your attention.
Don't go along with evil. Depend on Jesus, and do not trust how horrible and evil stuff and stinking thinking have us be and see things > just don't trust that.
"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with God." (Romans 12:21)
"'Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.'" (Matthew 11:28-29)
As you can see, words alone are not enough to tell you what I really mean. But Jesus is the One who knows all which is possible for you and me and any person, at all > and Jesus calls to
"all" to have rest in our souls. Because God is almighty, so He can change any of us to rest in sensitive and personal sharing with Him . . . in His all-loving love so we are caring about any and all people, like Jesus on the cross.
Because God is almighty, His love is safe. But if we have been living in human and self-seeking love, this can be why we could be hurt and fooled and used > because our self-seeking love is weak, not in God's almighty strength and safety. I myself, while I was so able to hurt others, I was so deeply weak so I could be hurt and insecure and fearing and worrying and looking down on other people, instead of really loving. I was so love-stupid that I could pick and choose who I loved because of what they looked like and how popular they were and how they could act like they were great people and charming.
But Jesus is not conceited, like I was. Jesus is God's own Son; yet Jesus left Heaven itself in order to reach us and save us and share with us.
And Jesus loves every person.
Jesus suffered and died like He did, on Calvary, with hope for any and all people > love
"hopes all things" > in 1 Corinthians 13:7.
So, this is how convinced Jesus Himself is, about you . . . no matter how cruel and Satanic thinking and feelings would convince you otherwise and keep your attention elsewhere.
God has proven Himself to us. This is how we know. Right in us we experience how God's love has changed us and effects how we see things >
"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:5)
So . . . I mean how God proves Himself to you, no less
Maybe you are looking and wishing for what is not good enough for you, and God wants more for you, and so He won't let you be satisfied with what is inferior.