Trust is lost in buckets and earned back in drops. It only takes one act of betrayal, one lie, or one relapse for you to lose trust with someone. Rebuilding trust is possible. You must honor, be respectful and be patient of the time it takes to earn back the trust you broke.
I’ve learned that closed doors are not threats to my destiny. I’ve learned that when someone exits my life, the right person enters it. I’ve learned that people lie. I’ve learned that God keeps his promises. I’ve learned that people will betray you, but God is loyal. I’ve learned that you can be alone while standing in a crowd. I’ve learned not to be concerned with what people think about me because frankly, most people don’t think about me. But God knows my name.
Neil Kennedy
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If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying “Peace, peace,” where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word “Let love be without dissimulation” and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
You have no control over how your friends treat you but you have absolute control over whether your spiritual batteries are charged. If they are, you’ll have strength even when your friends are trying to take you down the road you don’t want to go.
Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
It can be traumatically painful when someone who’s supposed to care, protect and provide for us, doesn’t. But when people fail us, our loving God never will. God will never grant a person authority over your destiny. When toxic, manipulative people realize they can’t control us, they’ll seek to control how other people view us. The enemy uses false accusations as a poisonous weapon seeking to destroy your identity and destiny.
You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.
January 18 2019
God had a Son that had no fault, but He never had a son that was not found fault with. God Himself was slandered in paradise by Satan. Let us not expect, therefore, to escape from the venomous tongue.
When you are deeply hurt, no person on this earth can shut out the innermost fears and deepest agonies. The best of friends cannot really understand the battle you are going through or the wounds inflicted on you. Only God can shut out the waves of depression and feelings of loneliness and failure that come over you. Faith in God’s love alone can salvage the hurt mind. The bruised and broken heart that suffers in silence can be healed only by a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit, and nothing short of divine intervention really works.
Doctor Who: “You betrayed me. You betrayed my trust, you betrayed our friendship, you betrayed everything I ever stood for. You let me down!”
Clara: “Then why are you helping me?”
Doctor Who: “Why?” He pauses. “Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?” (Doctor Who – Dark Water)
And this is the love God has always had for us. We betrayed Him, we took advantage of His friendship, and we turned our backs. We acted out in ways that went against everything He stood for and yet, He said he would help us. Instead of turning His back on us in response to our betrayal, He answered our “Why are you helping us?” with the same words as the Doctor. “Do you think I cared for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?” And then He took it one step further, sacrificing everything, laying on a cross that became the bridge that we could cross, closing the gap our betrayal caused.