I'LL BATTLE FATE FOR YOU

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[31women]

Look, I get it.

I get why you don’t want to believe in God. I get it. You’ve seen the Christians on street corners who are screaming about going to hell.  You’ve seen Christians turn a blind eye. You’ve seen Christians give really crappy answers when you’re hurting. You’ve seen Christians in church ignore the new people. You’ve seen Christians avoid you in the store. You’ve seen Christians be downright hurtful. You’ve seen Christians be just plain mean.

Here’s the thing.

Christians aren’t Christ. I get it. Christians give Christ a bad reputation. I do it. I swear and listen to music and mutter words that would make my grandma and my Jesus blush. I’m mean. I avoid people. I get it. 

I get it. We base our beliefs on what we see. We build our perceptions on our experiences. We base our opinions on what we’ve learned.

If you’ve had a bad experience or 47 bad experiences with Christians, I’m sorry.

This isn’t one of those posts that is going to end with the typical, “we’re all sinners and that’s why Jesus died for us”. although that is true - that’s not the point of this. What I’m saying is that Christians are going to disappoint you. Christians are not always going to represent Christ. Christians are going to hurt you. Christians are going to not look like Christians all of the time.  But are you following a Christian or are you longing to follow Christ?

Are you getting to know Christians and doing things how they do them or are you getting to know who God is and why exactly He sent Jesus? Are you spending your time pouring over Instagram and trying to match your journaling bible designs to the ones you see there? Or are you spending your time pouring over the Bible and trying to match your life to the ones detailed in the stories told there?

What I’m trying to get at is this: Christians will misrepresent God. Christians will mess up, we’ll make mistakes. We’ll say the wrong things. Because we’re not God. We’re not good at being God. We’re good at being humans. We were created as humans, and God is God. God is good at being God. God won’t misrepresent himself. God doesn’t mess up. He doesn’t make mistakes. He doesn’t say the wrong thing. He doesn’t leave. He doesn’t break his promises. He doesn’t let you down. Christians are meant to follow God. Christians are meant to become more like Jesus, not other Christians. 

If you’re skeptical about this whole thing, I get it. But if you’re willing, please seek to learn who God is and not who Christians can make him out to be.

-31Women (Emma)

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[kushandwizdom]

I want someone who won’t quit on me when shit gets rough.

Reyna Biddy (via kushandwizdom)

[teenagecrush]

[teenagecrush]

[vomitingwords]

I closed my eyes as I whispered closely to my heart, “Please do not fall in love with someone you cannot have. ” Yet when I saw what’s behind that beautiful eyes of yours, I felt my heart betrayed me once more.

ma.c.a // It feels right, but it’ll also hurt so bad (via vomitingwords)

[vomitingwords]

I tried to build walls around my heart which I call home, yet I never expected to see you coming like the strongest storm— lifting all the feelings I’m always longing for.

ma.c.a // Your name sounds like a hurricane (via vomitingwords)

[vomitingwords]

And if I’ll blame you for breaking my heart, what would I get? A clear mind? A beautiful life? A genuine smile? or an endless love? Maybe darling, it would still be a broken heart.

ma.c.a // I never wished for this (via vomitingwords)

[vomitingwords]

Let’s be strangers again. Like we never knew each other, as if we’ve never been lovers. Think of me as someone who doesn’t know you personally. Spilled out everything that hurts you. Tell me about your heartbreaks and all the things that suffocating you. I’ll listen to all of the things you’ve done in the past not caring if it will change my perspective or not. Tell me, how it hurts. And how much it pains you. As if you’re talking to someone you thought you’ll never see again. As if you knew your secrets will still be safe. Let us go back to our beginnings. Let us walk towards the start. Let us be unknown to each other once more. Maybe we will fall in love with each other after it all.

ma.c.a // I love to believe that “Maybe” (via vomitingwords)

[vomitingwords]

“I’m so scared of leaving you.” These were the words that I always wanted to hear from you. A six-words story. A million reasons of what we could be.

ma.c.a // But for you, Staying means Hurting (via vomitingwords)

[wordsnquotes]

Human beings must love something.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via wordsnquotes)

[teenagecrush]

“They didn’t have a ‘normal’ relationship, they teased each other, they play hit each other, they called each other names but underneath that anyone could see how much they cared because if you listened closely to every joking ‘shut up’ there was an 'I love you’ inside it..”

(via teenagecrush)