Imagine being bullied by the people in your neighborhood! Walking the streets every day with ugly words and mocking laughter ringing in your ears! Fearing that the gunshots that you hear almost every night in the distant part of where you are may one day come in your direction?
You try to tell your family, but they think you're imaging things because the neighbors smile and are friendly to them. Everything is done in such a way that only you know what is happening. They're even using their children to play to intimidate you. It seems that you have no one to appeal for help, for what proof can you give that this is happening?
This is a situation that is happening to a woman right now. She has decided that she is staying right where she is, and that no one can make her run from where she lives. She is a Christian, so she cannot take matters into her own hands, even though she has admitted to thinking about doing this many times. She prays, but everything seems to get worse and worse. Many times she gets discouraged, and wants to give up. But somehow she finds the strength she needs to go on.
I find this scenario very interesting. I would like you to let me know what you would do if you were in this situation.
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." Psalm 46:1
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