Hurt Feelings

When someone hurts you by something that they said, that hurt can last a very long time, sometimes for many years.  Sometimes it can seem to cripple the person that it was said to, especially if it was said many times.  It is as though words can cut deep, all the way to the soul of a person.  

Think of this, God’s Word is like a double-edged sword, it cuts to the bone and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart!!  When things are said that cut deep, this is where anxiety, anger, bitterness and revenge come from, and remember the heart is deceitfully wicked and who can know it except the spirit that lives in the person. Rage and anger and jealousy and anxiety come from the heart.  And remember this, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.  Whatever dwells in the heart will basically control the person’s speech.  

I will liken it to a tree, it is either a good tree and bears good fruit or it is a bad tree and bears bad fruit. The same thing seems to reflect, or could be said, about the heart.  A merry heart is good medicine, but a broken or crushed spirit dries up the bones.  Why are people so anxious, it may be because they have no real joy in their lives.  Without lasting joy and being anxious all the time can bring on sickness, plus the person will lose their strength.

Let me ask you this question, where does real joy come from?  It comes from the Lord.  God’s Word says this, that the joy of the Lord is your strength.  On the other hand, sin will destroy the joy in our life also.  David prayed a prayer that went like this when he was confronted by Nathan the prophet with the sin he had committed with Bathsheba; please read some of what he said from the Word of God yourself, it is found in Psalms 51:10-17, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart—These, O God, You will not despise.”                            

         

I have prayed this many times; ‘create in me a clean heart, oh God and renew a right spirit within me and take not your presence or your Spirit from me and restore to me the joy of your salvation.’  When we sin, it separates us from our God and steals our joy and makes us miserable if we are truly born again because we know what the wages of our sin cost our

Savior.  Sin can cause all these negative results I have listed here also.  

Would you like a clean and pliable heart and not a hard heart?  Paul talked about godly sorrow that brings forth repentance unto salvation in 2 Corinthians 7:10, “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.”           

If you have been sinned against, or hurt in some other way by someone, and you need to be set free of the thought of revenge or hatred or jealousy or anxiety and you have lost all joy and contentment, then you may have to do what you just read in 2 Corinthians.  Think about what it says and if the conviction of the Holy Spirit is present in your life and you feel that godly sorrow welling up in your soul, then act on it and truly repent by rejecting your sins and turning from them to the Lord and ask Him into your heart and life and to be your Lord and Savior and forgive you.  He is the healer and sustainer and the deliverer, the one that can deliver you from whatever is affecting you and set you completely free, praise the Lord!!  It comes down to this, if you want to be set free of all the things I mentioned earlier in this Tidbit, then you will have to act on what you read and if you are truly sincere I believe you will be set free, praise the Lord!!

I hope you have a super day and the good Lord blesses you and yours with His perfect peace, love and joy and health and happiness!!  I also pray that this was a blessing and a help to all who read it!!