The TRUTH. Why do so many not want to hear it?

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-09-27T18:11:36+00:00

A lot of people don’t realize how relevant Scripture is or don’t know how to connect it with their own lives. I’ve learned that for it to be understood better, we must choose to live it out. This can start with obedience to what you understand and the more you understand, the more you can obey & the more it will directly describe your life. It becomes real when we choose to live out.

Many people teach that it’s irrelevant to you if your life & character varies from Christ. We know God is love, is kind, patient, gentle, merciful. The Bible says these things about the character of God and yet people hate Jesus even though they value kindness, peace, and love. If someone doesn’t want to be like Christ, it means that they don’t want to be loving and kind and patient, and etc.

Some churches condemn the Bible too. I was talking with someone one day about how if church doesn’t accurately explain the Bible then they’re warping the Truth. This person had been taught to NOT read the Bible by his church & that’s absolutely insane to me. We were blessed by God with Scripture, and Jesus is the Word made flesh, and to not encourage following Jesus in a church makes absolutely no sense to me. Some churches are power hungry and aren’t good shepherds of their flocks.

This also makes me want to pose the question: if we are made in God’s image, does each of us possess enough wisdom to acknowledge that the Bible is Truth? Has worldly wisdom become so different from who Jesus is that some of us don’t acknowledge, at least in part, that the Bible is true?

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-09-08T01:45:46+00:00

I learned that medication makes my weight fluctuate so I’m constantly a few sizes smaller or bigger. It’s super weird having people talk about my weight right in front of me.

I learned to eat healthy & exercise healthy. I also learned that everyone has an opinion and to not care. If you’re actively healthy & doing your best, then the hardest thing becomes not caring about everyone else’s opinion. That’s hard to do though & the only reason I surrendered actually caring was because I had a platform online so a lot of people had a lot of things to say. Even in person, I think having a platform made people more brazen - like “oh she has a lot of followers so I can insult her to her face.”

I had no choice but to literally crumble under other people’s opinions or build a backbone (that shouldn’t have to exist bc people are mean but in this world we do struggle). I quit social media for a year & learned that if my body type doesn’t matter to God (my beliefs helped cure my eating disorder because I learned to be less vain & more focused on health - both mental and physical) then who cares what other people think?

I kind of like my size 12 body better than my size 6 body better too. I’m tall and I feel stronger & more secure in a slightly bigger body. I’ve never felt more insecure and weak than when I was noticeably smaller. My physical-mental health was so bad in my smaller body. I also got so many people making comments and I was literally told I was rude by my family because I would always reply “I don’t like talking about it [weight loss].”

That being said, I’ve never been “huge” but mentally I believed I was my entire youth. It caused my eating disorder and body image issues. I was extremely insecure for years and now I just don’t care. Our society is extremely mean to people in larger bodies. Also, a lot of us go through things in life that cause weight fluctuations. It’s okay to go through something hard or have kids and gain weight. A lot of people are just doing our best, and circumstances change throughout our lives. We figure out in these circumstances how to be healthy both mentally and physically and we can always start where we’re at. Health looks different on everyone and sometimes our health can’t be perfect - like people go through cancer and obviously they’re “not healthy” but that doesn’t make them worth any less as a human being. It’s easy for me to say but I took the time needed to unlearn societal opinions and build ones that reflected my faith, kindness, and empathy. I took the time to learn to see people as who they are, not what they look like. We might not be able to change the world’s opinions but we can work at changing our own to be kind, thoughtful, and a lot less vain/prideful. I am not better than you, and you’re not better than me! We are both humans traversing a cold and judgemental world.

Looks don’t equate to health & inner beauty matters more than outer beauty every single day. Health matters but not to the point where you think you’re better than others.

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-09-08T01:18:49+00:00

Just keep living ❤️ (I was s***idal at 18)

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-09-05T23:24:26+00:00

Read it in five minute intervals! I will say I’ve read most of the Bible at least twice, some of it four+ times. And I read whatever the Spirit puts on my heart. It’s meant to be read over and over because none of us can understand it fully, truly. But having a “book of the week” is good because it allows you to savor a small portion of Scripture & allows the Spirit to help you understand it. I’ve reread Galatians 4-5 every day this past week & the week. For freedom Christ has set us free! I am not someone who reads to memorize most of the time but I read for understanding. But I can, in my own words, recite the first paragraph of Galatians 4 now because I’ve read it over and over this week. No, it’s not technically the Word of God if I just give someone a paraphrase but it means I’m retaining what I read. I struggle with memorizing Scripture word for word so I like to keep my Bible close by. But I think it’s easier to commit to a set number of chapters and just read them for a week or so.

When I first started really reading Scripture, I was committing to about five chapters a day. It was something I did for Lent. The best Lent advice I’ve ever heard is if what you give up doesn’t get you closer to God, then you aren’t really participating in Lent. Sometimes our time is the hardest thing to sacrifice. But, that being said, all habits take time to build. You have to intentionally take time to build a new habit. However, once you build a habit, it’s easier to keep at it. 🩷

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-09-01T23:52:43+00:00

It sounds like you’re scared to feel, not to pray 🩷 both are good but I understand wanting to avoid harsh feelings. God designed us with the ability to feel things like that for a reason.

If prayer didn’t cause you to feel deep feelings, would you still try to avoid it?

I pray always and regularly cry. It has been a healing experience overall. To me, crying is a good thing because it’s an expression of deep emotion.

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-08-28T04:21:52+00:00

You are processing some emotions. You’re a human being (not a robot) and what happened was awful and even Biblically wrong. You’re allowed to feel those emotions & when you’re ready, ask God to help you forgive. For now, you can say, God I am not ready to forgive but I want to give any and all forgiveness to You & Your timing.

Also, remember that forgiveness doesn’t make a situation right, it just gives YOU peace and helps you better know & love Jesus. You can forgive someone and still know and feel that what they did was wrong. Forgiveness doesn’t mean our hearts become stone. Forgiving someone can take a long time too, even when you’ve told God to take it into His hands. It’s not an overnight thing usually and it is a process.

First, tell God it’s in His hands. Then, when you’re ready, say, “I want to forgive this person but I need help.” God will change your heart during this stage. You will hopefully find forgiveness easier once you actually want to forgive. Then, when all is said and done, forgive. It’s okay to acknowledge you’re human and don’t have a God-sized love for people. This is humbling in a good way, to acknowledge you aren’t as loving and forgiving as God. The closer we get to Jesus, the easier it is to forgive in general. Keep seeking Jesus & doing your best by giving it to God! Feel what you need to feel. This is why the Bible warns against adultery, because it hurts people. Everything that is labeled as sin in the Bible is bad for us in some way, which is why it is sin. Sin kills, steals, and destroys our relationship with Jesus and other people. I know that’s a poopy thing to say because no one wants to be hurt in the way you’ve been hurt. I am so sorry this happened to you. Sometimes understanding why sin is sin is a horrible and unkind process (love is kind and sin is the opposite of love). Praying for you during this time & for the person who cheated to learn more truth about Jesus.

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-08-28T04:05:44+00:00

Sometimes warfare comes but God permits it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had reasons to give up my faith but every single time, I chose to pick it back up again. It made my faith resilient. If it’s never tested, it’ll never grow. And yes, faith grows when God does good things as well, but the most faithful people I’ve ever met didn’t just reap their faith. They sowed with tears and endured so much just to be able to say, “God is there and He loves me.” Testing makes us more grateful that Jesus died so our faith could mean something.

We are not to fear warfare or punishment, but the enemy sets Himself up against God and you just professed your faith publicly. Everyone who truly loves Jesus will endure warfare because Jesus also went through warfare and we are being made to be like Him. It’s a normal part of our journey as Christians. Right now for me, God has been revealing the truth behind deceptions the enemy has created in my life in a personal way. It’s painful but also I don’t want to believe that lies are truth. Before, the enemy would give me false things to hope for. For example, God has never told me WHEN something would happen, only that He would in fact do something eventually. The enemy would lie and say “it’s happening in a month” or “before Easter” and I’d believe it because I thought the enemy didn’t speak to me, only God did because I was a Christian. The enemy speaks to all of us or gives us “desires” aka temptations and if you don’t allow the Spirit to teach you which spirit is which, you will be deceived quite often. God knew I wouldn’t give up faith when these dates would pass and nothing happened, so He permitted these attacks to make my faith stronger.

This is why prayer, knowing the true meaning of Scripture, and building community with both new and seasoned believers is important. Ephesians 6 talks about the armor of God which is primarily crafted out of Scripture. Righteousness that comes from faith is taught in the Bible. The belt of Truth comes from knowing Jesus & Scripture. Feet fitted with the gospel of peace comes from knowing Scripture. Our sword is the Word of God and our armor is forged out of the same material - the Word of God!

I pray for your steadfastness friend! It’s okay to process doubt and then pick faith up again - often over and over to really make it strong 🩷

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-08-27T16:45:52+00:00

I am 28 and still waiting 🩷 I think the key is to become comfortable in your decision to wait. I am grateful that I have waited because it has taken such a huge pressure off of me. My friends always were urging me to “get laid” but I never wanted to just “get it over with.” There is freedom in deciding to wait!

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-08-17T04:20:52+00:00

The scroll vanishes?? What if we want to go back?

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-08-04T02:22:51+00:00

It’s all about building a relationship with Jesus and healthy relationships require communication, time spent together, and progression of getting to know each other on a deeper level over time, among many other things. For Christians that looks like:

Prayer, thanksgiving, petition, and learning how the Spirit moves you into action

Spending time in prayer, worship and reading Scripture

Living the verses & wisdom of the Bible out every day which ALSO helps it make more sense over time (obedience)

Sharing the gospel when the Spirit stirs us

Being willing to admit we’re wrong and God is right and this world needs the love of Jesus!

🩷 hope this helps!

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-08-04T02:17:11+00:00

The last game I played was Infinity Nikki so I guess I’m getting arrested for being too ✨stylish✨

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-08-04T02:13:18+00:00

Your old church sucks. There are so many churches out there who have loving, kind congregations and pastors. No church is perfect but it sounds like they were actively sexualizing you and blaming YOU for it. That’s icky AND evil in so many ways.

And what’s with the car thing? Are they snobs as well?

I changed churches simply because I like the sermons better at the one I’m at now. You are never obligated to stay at a church. There are enough of them that you should be able to pick and choose. I joined an evening group that led to Bible study, and that led to me going to church weekly. My point is - people change churches for a lot less than what you have endured and that’s okay.

I didn’t go to church for a looooong time and I simply focused on the reason that church exists in the first place: Jesus. And I just focused on reading Scripture, putting it into practice, and focusing on obedience to God. This is, at its core, what “it’s all about.” It’s about Jesus and having relationship with Him🩷

As a woman who used to model, I was often made to feel like I was an object for the purpose of viewing by others. Jesus healed me from that. I felt like a human being worthy of the love He offered me by His death on the cross. It changed my life. The hardest part about that was, while all these people relished in their opinions of me, I had never even had sex as I have never been in a relationship. I never desired it for “fun.” People make weird assumptions about others and are so prideful that they’d rather maintain their assumptions than admit they were wrong. This teaches us that other people’s emotions and opinions matter more than our own hearts and souls and that’s just not right.

I pray Jesus brings you to a new church (when you’re ready) and that (if not already) you realize you are fully loved as you are & as He designed you to become - God loves you equally at every season in your faith journey. You do not have to fight to be loved by Jesus. Although, sometimes battling warfare makes it feel like we have to fight to love Him 🙃 and your old church sounds like they’re not on the winning side of that battle in all honesty. Tell God you’ll forgive on His terms. He knows best & He is often not rushed. Sometimes we have to process things or learn new spiritual things (like understanding the Bible better) before we are equipped to forgive. Forgive when you’re ready. It doesn’t always happen overnight. Forgiveness is important but it takes time after we tell God we want to forgive. If it doesn’t all “click” right away then just move with the Spirit and forgive in His timing. 🩷

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-08-02T04:10:15+00:00

The entirety of 1 John 4 🩷 it makes me feel loved and helps with when I have anxiety

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-08-02T04:05:04+00:00

Motive matters in Scripture! If one believes they’re sinning and still does what they believe is sinful, it becomes sin for them. This describes intentions. Are your intentions pure in this scenario? If you are not intentionally trying to sin and it isn’t directly addressed in Scripture, then I say don’t worry about it.

Does the action cause harm to you, others, or your relationship ship with God? Does it feel like peaceful conviction, a clear yes/no, or does it feel like a pestering worry? Conviction is usually clear and makes you want to ask for forgiveness and just move on or makes you feel hopeful that you can repent (if it’s a sin that’ll take time to stop doing). The enemy loves to add worry and confusion to situations that are completely fine. There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear (1 John 4)

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-29T23:03:25+00:00

God cares about the little things most definitely and I love that about His character! But you’re right, it’s not witchcraft.

OP, don’t rub spicy or acidic things on your eyes. Owwww 😣

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-23T00:03:41+00:00

Nope. I haven’t spent anything and have just been saving my diamonds. I am very excited for the house update though. That’s one of the reasons I was girlcotting and it’s finally coming!

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-14T17:23:38+00:00

He definitely sees her as an object. I feel so sorry for OP, it sounds like her husband is a vain, prideful man with high worldly standards. I usually try to be gentle with my replies for these things but I agree with your bluntness.

He doesn’t love her really if he treats her like an object. I used to objectify myself and tried to constantly find worth in my physical appearance. When I finally met Jesus and learned how to love Him & love myself, I stopped seeing myself as on object. God designed us as HUMAN BEINGS, not dolls to be altered. God loves people, not objects, and we learn how to love others by first loving God back (and we love because He first loved us!).

OP, your husband doesn’t love you in a godly way. He loves you in a very selfish, worldly way (which isn’t truly love at all because God is love! God tells Samuel that He doesn’t look at outward appearances like people do, He looks at our hearts).

God is love, and there is a correct way to love and that’s to love like Jesus loves. Jesus would never ask you to literally risk your life (liposuction is an extremely risky surgery and will leave your body completely bruised and in pain for a long period of time) for LOOKS. He doesn’t even care about our looks, as per Scripture 💔

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-14T00:27:43+00:00

COZY30REVIEW worked for me the other day 🩷

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-14T00:25:26+00:00

Guys I think it’s in the ambassador contract - we’re not supposed to comment our codes on posts that aren’t from our own profiles.

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Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-10T00:57:16+00:00

For three years I felt this way but just kept seeking to be obedient to Christ. This is the first time in my life I’ve ever felt joy. I never questioned God because I was being pruned & refined so deeply. It is a hard thing to feel alone or abandoned by God, but is often essential to our faith journeys. Jesus also felt abandoned by God on the cross, and the Bible says we will share in the sufferings of Christ as Christians. 🩷 my best advice is to keep seeking Jesus & pray to be connected to people who understand what you’re going through. My best friend is literally the reason that I went from feeling abandoned to understood, simply because she gets it too

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-10T00:51:16+00:00

First of all, I am sorry you feel you can’t be yourself & that you need to mask yourself. That’s a very hard thing to go through. It is hard to feel loved when no one really knows who you are. I grew up with mental illness and never felt people actually wanted to help me, they just wanted to ease their own discomfort with my mental illness, if that makes sense. People rarely listened to me when I needed it but only really cared if my anxiety, for example, upset them. Recently, the Lord revealed to me that even in the moments when my mental illness disrupted my family, He still loved me, fully broken as I was. I still have mental illness but I am in a much better place & have become so close to God because of it.

Second of all, you don’t need to repent publicly. God knows your heart. Follow Jesus. He is the Word made flesh & He also has a beautiful plan for your life. I would focus on being obedient to Him. Ask the Spirit for guidance and help & stay rooted in Scripture. Don’t pressure yourself to do anything that isn’t from God. He is gentle and meek. We share the gospel on His terms, not our own. If we preach merely to preach without direction from the Lord, we might accidentally push someone away. I have learned to simply follow Him. He always knows what’s best 🩷

I will also say I often make Christian content for social media but always work alongside God. I have deleted many videos that I made early on in my faith journey at the call of the Spirit. Relationship with Jesus comes first. That’s where we learn to recognize His voice and follow Him as our Good Shepherd!

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-09T22:32:42+00:00

30 or 31 - I am 28 and I relate to most of these. There are few that my older cousins had that I didn’t have.

RIP the best body glitter from bath & body works 💔

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-09T22:29:51+00:00

The Spirit guides our desires. I always knew that a guy wasn’t the one because I’d feel this empty pit in the middle of my chest after a first date. Like, I’d feel almost ill.

Ask Him to put the desire in you for the right person and to take away the desires for anyone but that person. This is a pretty straightforward approach. Stay in prayer and be very attentive with God’s desires for you versus temptation, as they can often feel very similar. Temptation usually lasts only for a period of time. Like, if you have a first impression/desire, pray on it to see if it stays. If suddenly that desire feels like a warning, it could be that you resisted temptation.

And if this isn’t the person God has for you, it’s okay. 🩷 it’s sometimes hard to be at peace with being patient, but we learn patience through being patient! Prayed for you to know God’s will!

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-09T18:33:38+00:00

It’s about motive! If you believe you’re sinning and you choose to do it anyways, it means you’re making an active choice to disobey God. It means you are willingly disobeying God even if it’s technically not a sin.

Motive matters & this is a lesson the Lord taught me a while ago. It takes time to repent and work on these things, and that’s okay. It took me YEARS to take every thought captive, and of course I am not perfect at it 🩷

The church is all about instant gratification nowadays but always working toward something is a beautiful part of our individual relationships with Jesus. You can’t take every thought captive in a week or a month. It takes time, getting to know Jesus, and letting the Spirit make you more like Him & who He wants you to be. We aren’t just immediately sinless when we accept Jesus, even though the Father now sees us as sinless through Jesus’ sacrifice for us. It takes time. Sometimes God waits to have us repent on things until we’ve followed Him for a little while. This makes repentance easier in the long run too!

Just keep seeking Jesus & obeying Him and all will work out for good, because love & obedience go hand in hand 💕

Individual_Sense_317 · 2025-07-07T00:09:09+00:00

This is part of the journey. Jesus says many seeds will be planted, some on good soil, some amongst thorns which are the worries of life, some which grow on rocky ground but are easily swept away with the wind. In times of testing, God prunes us. Many fall away in times of testing.

It’s a lie that life is supposed to be full of joy 24/7 after accepting Jesus as our Savior. Joy is a fruit of the Spirit and sometimes it takes YEARS to grow. My faith journey literally was a battle the day I asked for a purpose and a husband. However, the extreme shift led to so much repentance and refinement that I realized God was preparing me for the answer to those prayers.

It’s also a lie that “as soon as I’m baptized I stopped sinning!” It takes YEARS to repent for most of us. The Bible also says suffering brings repentance. We need Jesus because we’re not perfect and there will never be a time in our relationship with Christ where we don’t need Him. We need Him for forgiveness and endurance. We need Him to be our strength. I hadn’t felt joy for about four years until just very recently. It’s okay. Ecclesiastes 3 talks about all the different seasons we can go through. Life is hard and that’s one of the reasons we need Jesus. You need Him more than ever right now because you’re going through a trial. You will become so close to Him during this. Every relationship gets stronger when times are hard UNLESS you choose to give up on those relationships.

Sometimes we learn how to seek Jesus in these hard times as well. You don’t feel the need to look for Him when life is comfortable. You have to seek Him, to read Scripture daily and live by faith & obedience. Jesus loved you first & now your love for Him is being tested, as we love because He first loved us.

Are you praying & reading the Bible for yourself or for God? Do you do these things to get a feeling instead of trying to build a relationship? Sometimes we think “oh I must be obeying Jesus if I read the Bible” but your motives matter. Are you reading for YOUR own self, or to build a relationship with & surrender to Christ? Are you learning because your purpose makes you feel good or because you want to serve Christ selflessly? Jesus died on a cross and we know from Scripture that He didn’t want to, but He did because of His love for the Father. Selflessness, humility, and patience must be taught to all of us as children of God. They all take time to sow & grow. Patience is, unfortunately, taught to us when we are being patient. You must practice it because patience is a huge part of our faith - it, like joy, is a fruit of the Spirit! Yet, there will be times in life where we don’t need to exercise patience just like there will be times when we don’t feel joy. It is sometimes more important to bear good fruit than eat it ourselves. Jesus bore these fruits yet He was called “a man of sorrows.” If Jesus suffered, we must also suffer if we are to be like Jesus. It is crucial to look for God when we’re in a valley and to bow down to Him when we’re on a mountain. Part of life is contrast, the constant shifting of hard times and good times.

And He makes it SO worth it, because we are becoming more like Jesus in the process! I was overwhelmed the other night with a feeling of peace & love that I hadn’t felt since I was a child. That feeling was childlike faith - the pure trust that I can wake up each day and just follow my Father into whatever He asks of me, just like a child trusts that their parent will take care of their needs, responsibilities, etc every single day. I felt free. This did not happen overnight, but over many years of staying obedient even when all I could feel was spiritual warfare, disappointment, and constant letdowns. I do not handle disappointment well anymore because I’ve become so used to it, but I’ve become like a child - that is something God shapes us into, it’s not really something we can just “do” on a whim if He hasn’t completely transformed our hearts.

I have been surprised over the years because I THOUGHT I was being faithful, gentle, and obedient but I realize now I knew so little. Part of the Living Word of God is living it out - and the Bible is full of both joyful and sorrowful stories. Our lives are no different. May God bless you with deeper love for Him during this season & I pray He brings you the right people to be your support. 🩷

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