I'm New and I Need Your Help

[Fisherman]

Hey there, everyone!

I'm new here. I'd like to introduce myself, but first a disclaimer: I'm definitely not trying to sound holier-than-thou, or make myself seem sinless and pure when I tell you this brief story. I just want you to know me a little better as a person before I drop the big question. I'm a happily married man, and I have brought one beautiful boy into this world with my wife Muriel. She's a practicing Methodist.

I've never been a mean person, in my own terms. I've always contained my anger and frustration and I've found frequent vents through prayer. I really feel sorry for the atheists out there, what do they do with all their hard times? I'm so glad I have G-d to go to in my moments.

I take care of my mother and her house. She can't move around as much as she'd like, so I clean up after her on the weekends. I work two jobs and I'm busy putting my wife through college[An accident at her workplace left her unable to work for a few months, and in this time, she decided to go about getting her degree] and I'm saving to put my son through college. He's 16, and his views on Christ are blooming.

I give to food drives, charities and the Heifer organization. I volunteer and I go to prayer services. I'd open my home to a complete stranger if he was in a time of need. I try my very hardest to make my life as virtuous as possible. I've really found Christ.

Here's the problem. It's the one thing that no one can run from, the one thing in dire pursuit of them their entire lives: their past. Not my past in particular, by my mother is Jewish. That makes me Jewish as well. My father was a Muslim. He's gone now, and I sometimes get uneasy thinking about his afterlife.

Every time I'm in church, people send me these nasty looks. They think I'm in league with Osama or something! It tears me up inside. I can't begin to explain to you how unhappy I've become. I try so hard to be good and pure, but because of my past, I feel that I may never be accepted.

Does G-d have a place for me? Is it just this religious climate that I live in that hates me so much? Where can I go from here?

I need your help. I'm a christian, a believer, but I'm a jew and the son of a muslim.

Where do I go?

W.

 

[rizen1]

I just want to say, God bless you richly.

I need your help. I'm a christian, a believer, but I'm a jew and the son of a muslim.

I dont understand, what help do you need ?

God is looking at you, not your mother or father. If people are judging you because of where you came from thats wrong. The beauty of being saved, is having a past no one but God can understand, because it was his love and grace that brought you out.

Every time I'm in church, people send me these nasty looks. They think I'm in league with Osama or something! It tears me up inside. I can't begin to explain to you how unhappy I've become. I try so hard to be good and pure, but because of my past, I feel that I may never be accepted.

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ...

“He who hates Me hates My Father also.... But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.’" John 15:18-25


This verse talks about the world hating us, but its your church, the House of God ,the body of Christ that gives you dirty looks.

I come from a diverse background, so jews, hindu's and muslims were my best friends, school mates and neighbours. So ignorance is not in my family or my vocabulary. People tend to be afraid of things they dont understand or know. They dont know you, all they know is what their minds call "accepted ". We are called to pray for them, for God to remove the blindfolds and open their hearts to appreciate "differences". I'm different, and I really dont care who hates my skin, my culture, my heritage, my family because I love them and God loves them.

If we all looked alike and shared the same Biography, it would be boring. God created everyone, he accepts everyone, the blood of Jesus Christ is for everyone.

“He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." John 1:10-13

I have to leave the computer,but I will keep you and your family in prayer.

You need to take this to God and ask him if you need to change your Church.

 

[Fisherman]

I just feel like I'm selected out for hatred. I was once a practicing Muslim and my peers have made me near convinces that my blood is forever spoiled. Can't there be more than one way to Christ? Is that not how light works?

 

[LornaDoone]

Every time I'm in church, people send me these nasty looks. They think I'm in league with Osama or something! It tears me up inside. I can't begin to explain to you how unhappy I've become. I try so hard to be good and pure, but because of my past, I feel that I may never be accepted.

Fisherman - I might not understand why others cannot see past what they presume to know is there, why they cannot see you through God's eyes. You have accepted Christ - and God knows this.

Sometimes it is hard to shake the need for the accpetance of your fellow man. But you do not need it - God has already accepted you, loved you, continues to transform you, and wants you.

Romans 15:3-6 "For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me." For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."

May the peace of God, and the Grace of His Son fill your heart.

Blessings

 

[Fisherman]

You know what...You're all right. My relationship with christ is mine and mine alone, and I think that it's preposterous that I could let someone elses sneers get in my way. I feel so westernized.

Thanks, everyone.

 

[Cody]

Welcome to Talk Jesus. Enjoy the fellowship.

God Bless

John 14:6
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." KJV

 

[Chad]

Welcome to the forums brother. Glad you've received valuable answers here. Not much I can add to it but to encourage you to pray for those who make themselves your enemy (however it may be, hate, gossip, disassociation, etc).

As they say: look up , not ahead.

PS: Pleas spell GOD as GOD, not G-D with a dash. Not sure why you do that, but its respectful towards GOD to spell out His name right.

 

[tinanne]

All I can say..is always do good for evil, ..no one is better than you, ..we are all born in sin, ..remember that those who judge have allot more of Christianity to learn than you do..you are precious to God...and if all Churches of God should fail you because of imperfect humans, you can be a solitary Christian if you have too...so just find joy in your own application of Christianity..and don't base it on how others see you...best wishes...tinanne..

 

[Br. Bear]

Greetings Fisherman,

I hope you have seen love and acceptance here at Talk Jesus, my brother.

Can I quickly point out to Chad that G-d is a Jewish thing, in belief that His name is too holy and pure to say... YHWH is our closest example of this, and our brother Fisherman believes he is being extremely respectful to G-d by so doing. Let us see that in other countries, folks have different names.
Now, Fisherman... it is Isa Messiah who you believe in? Jesus Christ? Or is it Yeshua Messiah?
I think all these things can be a hindrance to the glory of the LORD. I know God is not a name, so if we want to be extreme in swallowing camels, we should perhaps refrain form even such words as G-d, as He is not really interested in it all.
Can I quote you brother?
"I'm a christian, a believer, but I'm a jew and the son of a muslim"


We become Christians by believing.....whether we be Jew or not, no matter who our earthly father is, and it is in believing that Our Father in Heaven gave His only begotten Son, that we have eternal life....and this as you may well know, is what Christmas is about, the giving of Christ Jesus the Lord by the loving mercy and grace of our Father in heaven.
There are no clauses about what to call our Father, and no indication that our past is our future reference to Salvation. Only believe.... it is enough.
In believing, we grow in truth to the full measure of the glory of the LORD in Christ Jesus according to the measure He meets out. In believing, we love, as He loved us. In believing we are a stumbling block to the children who walk in darkness.....and in believing, we are free. And whosoever the Son sets free is free indeed.

So walk in the freedom that Christ has bought for you. Whosover has seen the Son, has seen the Father. A simple mystery. I and my Father are one, said Jesus. So what do we call our Father? Abba ? Call to Him in love and He will answer, but remember no man cometh to the Father except by the Son, Jesus Christ, by whom all things were made....and are kept for that day of wrath and glory that will surely come. In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was GOD and became flesh and dwelt amongst us and He is that light that lights the heart of men, and it is Christmas that celebrates the WORD becoming Flesh...and you shall call His name Immanuel.
You see, brother, the old has passed and the new is here...Christ made a way to the Father that was blocked out by the 'rules' and superstitions of man, a way that we can come boldly to the throne of Grace, that had been shut up by the traditions of man....He has set us free to worship the LORD in spirit and truth, and to praise His name ....even in words that cannot be uttered.

IT is my prayer for you, dear brother Fisherman, that the glory of the Lord rest upon you and that He makes manifest in you His glorious power in the gifts of the Spirit, that all who doubt you will no longer doubt what Christ did for you on the cross .... in the name of the Father , Son and Holy Ghost, amen.

There is nothing new under the sun.....they did not trust Jesus of Nazareth, nor Saul or Tarsus.....
my family and old friends and quite a few who use the name of Jesus, do not trust me (that I am a member of a holy priesthood, a Christian, a saint, and that I can have a relationship with the Almighty and call Him friend!).... but I know whom I have believed and trust in Him.

Bless you,

Br. Bear

 

[REBECK]

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Fisherman, first of all I love your name, he said, " I will make you fishers of men " Jesus also said " Come just as you are " never been but one perfect man and that was Jesus the son of God, hold your head high, Jesus Loves You, it is such a shame that we oft times are quilty of judging the book by the cover, you are a child of the King, that is enough to give you the strength and courage to face tomorrow. Just do as Christ did, he said "Father forgive them for they know not what they do!!!!I also wondered why you signed God as G-d, were you just using it that way as a short cut or does it have a meaning to you? Just wondering. God Bless You, Rebeck

 

[REBECK]

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I am changing the subject just for a moment, I am new and need help, can anyone tell me how and where to post in the forums, I love this site!!!Thanks for any advice, Love, Rebeck