So Hurt...

[Bevlina]

Praise God for all of you. Slowly, this will pass. Sadly, I have found some christians to be very harsh.

 

[oldrooster]

I am sorry to hear that Bev, know you are always welcome here.....

 

[Bevlina]

Thanks OR. but...I am no longer calling myself a 'christian'. If that's what they are like, and I've suffered from these types of people for a long time, I don't want to be lumped into their category.

 

[mesue]

On CF last night, I was so hurt by some of the members that right now, I'd just like to have a few words of encouragement from some of you to help me through without elaborating.
Bit by bit, I'm finding christians a bit hard to find fellowship with.

in advance.

Bev!!
Don't let the words of some spoil your fellowship with the rest of us.
I love you and thank God for your friendship
I'm sorry you are hurting.

 

[Bevlina]

Thankyou mesue. I'm still lost about this matter. This is because i don't understand it really. I'm very childlike in my ways. The last thing I wanted was bad feeling online! But, it appears to be that way.

 

[kindredAngel777]

sorry to hear that, sometimes you find christians like that, you have them good apples and then the bad. :o

 

[Vigil]

Greetings and Blessing be upon you Bevlina, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.



I want you to know you are a beautiful child of God and brother/sister of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savor.

No words of any mortal can take that from you

You have my blessings and best wishes, in all that you do.

Vigil.

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” (1 Peter 5:8)

 

[I'ddie4him]

It's been a little while since I've spent any amount of time here in my forum, Let me apologize for the way that you were treated. I always try to treat people with respect, kindness, and understanding. It bothers me that we do have some here at CF that don't do this and hurt other peoples feelings. I am sorry to hear that your feelings were hurt. If this happens again, Please let me know about it.

 

[mamaneenie]

I'm sorry about it too. I'm just doing a bit of surfing onto the other areas of this site and came across your post.

Hugs and blessings always, Neen.

Always keep your chin up.

 

[Mr.Cheese]

Awww....*hug*
The internet is prone to fits of communication gone wrong/misunderstanding and other modes of painful pointless comments.
Sometimes you have to just walk away from a thread or a forum for a while.
We do our best to keep things civil, but some opinions stab just as deep.
You learn who to pay attention to and who to tune out.

 

[Bevlina]

Many thanks to Kindred,Vigil, Neen I'die and Cheese. to you all who have been trying to pull me through. I do need your prayers.

 

[EbonNelumbo]

Bevlina,

My deepest sympathies are with you, since I know how it feels to be mistreated by those who are Christian. One thing that I have learned is that though many Christians claim to walk in the light, it is in the darkness of themselves that the truth is revealed. It is often hardest to overcome grief when you have been hurt by someone who bears God's name, Christian, Little Christ, but I can tell you that no matter what someone bearing that name says or does, it reflects NOTHING as to how the Lord truly is. God is so loving and it is often so hard to see that, personally I came to CF to find people that would prove to me that I am nopt alone, but I too have been hurt by a few, but mainly I came here because I was wounded greatly by someone who claimed to be Christian and was even an active member of my congregation.

I think it is sad that Christians treat eachother as they do, or shall I say as we have done. I am not perfect myself and have hurt many, but it is to God whom I go to when I truly need to see love, though it would be nice to be able to trust those who said they were saved, sometimes it is then that God wants us to come to Him the worst.

Feel free to PM me anytime and perhaps we can talk more on this matter, dont let my age scare you...I am usually pretty mature and such, or so I have been told.

 

[Bevlina]

Oddbeanie, you are a sweetie. Your posts are a true inspiration to others. I am soo grateful for people like you.

 

[VivDaGurl]

I'm sorry to hear what happened to you, Bevlina. I'm a new member here, joined this morning but so far, I find that it's a good place to be at so far.

We are just human beings and sometimes, there are people whom may not be sensitive enough to say the right things. Just put these people aside and always remember that God is there with you. Fellowshipping with Christians isn't that difficult but there's one thing you have to remember that none of us are perfect.

Besides that, the Bible had also stated that we are supposed to love one another like how we love ourself. Let me share something with you. After I came back to Malaysia from Australia (I did my studies there), I met up with a group of Christian friends whom I used to hang out with. My health wasn't very good and the doctors had found out what was wrong with me then but since I had to come back to Malaysia, I need to get the treatment back home.

However, I didn't get any good treatment from that group of Christian friends of mine and they said, "You, sick?!?!??! I doubt so but if you want us to pray, we'll pray for you then." I was so upset that I started to go around to look for a comfortable church to attend and now, I get a lot of support and encouragement from the group of friends from this church I'm attending. Pray and God will lead you to a group where you'll be comfortable with...

 

[CeCe]

Hi Bevlina. Sorry to hear you've been hurt. I understand (to some extent) I've been away for a while myself because of how I felt after getting a little "treatment" from Christians at my own church. I almost walked away from Him as a result. My feeling was that if THAT is Christianity, I wanted no part of it. But He reminded me that the actions of those who call themselves Christians has absolutely nothing to do with HIM. Jesus is still Lord no matter how foolishly people behave. I have no church home at the moment but I do have a heavenly one And I'm trusting Him.

I just came across your post when I was trying to catch up a little and figure out all the changes here. But I remember you as a very sweet and loving person and just wanted to say that I feel for you and I'm praying for you.

 

[Godsgirl481]

I just thought I would say hi...not sure why here but hi anyways

 

[MakeMeAServant]

Bevlina,
I am very sorry that someone hurt you. I have been barked at several times on this forum too by Christians, and sometimes I have felt like giving up trying to help those people. In fact, I would have given up if the Holy Spirit hadn't helped me recognize that those Christians were barking at me because they were very frightened by what I had said because I was hitting on a very personal and extremely scary truth that they had buried deep in their hearts and never wanted to think about again in their lives -- abuse. They weren't lashing out at me because I had been unkind to them or even nosy. The deeper the abuse went, the more that victim lashed out at me for trying to help them and the more Satan tried to convince me to get off of this forum and out of people's personal business. But the Holy Spirit kept telling me to get back on CF and keep talking to them because God had directed me to that exact person and He wanted to begin to heal their hearts and lives through me. I just want to testify (not to bring honor and glory to me but to bring honor and glory to Jesus) that most of those individuals that the Holy SPirit kept helping me to reach out to despite their mean or discouraging words at first are being healed by Jesus emotionally of the abuse. Almost every one of them has been instrumental in helping numerous people on CF come to Christ and also start to heal from their abuse. Now I realize more than ever that we are in a spiritual battle and we are battling against powers and principalities that would keep us from doing Christ's will for our lives. But praise God that we are more than conquerors through Jesus and can overcome the traps Satan lays for us to be able to do the will of God. I have seen alot of your posts, and I just wanted to encourage you and others reading this to keep doing what God tells you to do. Satan will fight you terribly hard if what you are doing is really important for the kingdom of God (and what could be more important than helping people come back to Christ and heal through Him from all their hurts?), but if you keep fighting in God's army no matter what people say or think about you then you will be rewarded past anything you could possibly imagine by God. For example, almost every person God has allowed me the privilege of helping has come back to minister to my heart and pray for my situation and inspire me to keep on doing the will of God when Satan has tried to knock me down. Praise God for brothers and sisters to lean on with our burdens, but when they fail let's all try to remember that we're not going to fall over when other Christians desert us because we are also leaning on the Rock that will never waiver -- Jesus Christ!!

 

[Bevlina]

Well...what beautiful, inspiring and encouraging posts! Thankyou Viv, CeCe,Bam, and MakeMe and all my other friends in this thread.

I had a little break from here and thought I would try out a non christian website to see how it ticked. And, I saw how the name of Jesus, and people are treated there.
I was in for the greatest shock of my life when I went there!

It was an eyeopener! And, I shall never return there.

There may have been a few hurts here. But...NOTHING to what went on there.
And, all I did was watch for a little while, joining in now and then.

I will stick to Christians no matter what!

Nobody pm me as to where I went for I won't be telling!