I've always been pretty soft when it comes to people talking about me behind my back. I was never the popular guy in school, and over the years I've developed a thicker skin. I've always been insecure about my looks, and try to put in to the back of my mind. Although, it still cuts deep when someone says something about me that isn't cool, especially if I know it's not true.
What gets me even worse, is when I don't even know who the person is. Maybe it's just some random guy in school that saw me with a girl he liked, and decided to target me. Sometimes it's that guy from work you've never talked to, and suddenly you hear that they don't like you, and you're like... what?
This time, it was a faceless, nameless, anonymous, blogger comment.
I won't paraphrase, I'll just paste exactly what they said.
Disclaimer: If you reeeally don't like foul language, don't read ahead.
Anonymous said...
"You're such a pretentious dick.
If people like you go to heaven, I'm glad I won't be there."
I have no idea what triggered this person anger in my last blog. Either they know me and just don't like my point of view, or they saw the blog, and got upset. Either way, I won't pretend like I understand the motive.
I've received comments like this before, on the blog, on facebook, email, text, you name it. Sometimes I did something while on a worship team that someone didn't like. Maybe someone didn't like the way I pray on 3SN's "Prayer time" (that actually happened). This time though.. I really don't know.
I'm pretty confident that I'm not a pretentious guy, and I have people commend me on my ability to accept others as they are, so on the one hand I'm like, okay, this person obviously needs to pull things together a little bit better, or they're seeing me in a bad light or something. On the other hand, I'm thinking, did I really hurt this person? If I did, I feel terrible. It's made all the more frustrating because I'll probably never know who this was, or why they said what they did.
So I'm left without an easy solution here, because as thick as my skin might get, these things are still going to get through. All I can do is keep trying to become the man of God I know I should be, and look to his word.
This time, his word says this.
Matthew 5:11-12
"11 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kind of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
If a few harsh words from the mouths of people who don't know my heart are going to push me a little bit closer to where David, John, and Moses are kneeling before God.. bring it on.
Kyle Jenkins 3SN
How do you deal with being hurt by the words and actions of others?
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What's up Kyle,
I was seriously blessed by this man...the way that you sought Gods word and desired to live out this passage is so key.
Persecution sucks man, it does. But the beauty thing about having the faith that we do is that there is no reason why we should be crushed by it. And that is exactly what I see you doing bro, be encouraged, fight the good fight.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36 As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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