When you have been Hurt

Today's Be A Better You Devotional is about juggling the emotions of being hurt.

When you have been hurt or mistreated in your life, it can sometimes leave scars. This can cause many emotions to arise in you and that is normal. It's normal to feel angry. It's normal to feel heartbroken. Especially if you have been talked down to, because words tend to stick sometimes. It is not an easy thing to deal with. Sometimes people can even hurt us in evil ways.

Maybe you have been mistreated lately and are feeling hopeless and weak. Or perhaps you are struggling with holding on to hurt from your past. Wherever you are, dealing with the pain from being hurt is a wrestle and makes it seem almost impossible to have a normal life, with any joy.

It can sometimes seem like the hurt haunts you, as it hangs over your head. And as hard as you try to run from the hurt, you find yourself revisiting those moments and getting even more upset and angry. I have been there before, and I couldn't seem to shake the emotions and the thoughts. I had a hurt from my past, in my childhood and I just couldn't seem to get over it.

Until the day, the Lord spoke to me and said:

"You need to forgive."

I tried to argue with God telling him, that I did forgive.

He showed me that I did not truly forgive, and he showed me that I had a bitter root within me that had grown into anger and resentment.

What this person did seemed truly unforgivable to me, and I realized that was why I had not truly forgiven, because I still didn't understand how or why someone could be so evil. I had spent so many years questioning things, that I lost focus on the real problem. I needed to let go of the bitterness and give it all to God. It was weighing me down and I was trapped.

I finally surrendered it to God after years and years of holding onto that hurt.

When I truly forgave.......wow. I experienced peace that I literally cannot explain. After that, I was even able to surrender other things in my life that I had struggled so hard with. The chains were broken.

Forgiveness does not excuse the wrong that someone did to you and it certainly does not make them right,

but what it does do is SET YOU FREE. It breaks the stronghold that the enemy had on you.

I have found that it also helps you see through the eyes of Christ.

When we choose to forgive instead of handling it ourselves, God will fight that battle for us and take care of it. We have to trust in Him.

Forgiving isn't always easy sometimes. I get it.

But it is possible.

"And when ye stand praying, forgive if ye have ought against any: that your Father which is in Heaven may also forgive you of your trespasses."

Mark 11:25

"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive you"

Matthew 6:14-15

"For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee."

Psalm 86:5

Stay blessed yall!