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When someone who should have loved you didn’t

Jesus said out loud why He came: “to set the oppressed free” (Luke 4:18). That includes people who were hurt by someone who was supposed to love them.

And He knows how it feels. He was mocked, beaten, and betrayed. “When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate” (1 Peter 2:23).
You never have to explain your wounds to Him. He has His own.

His strongest warning was for people who hurt the weak and the young (Matthew 18:6).
God does not shrug at what happened to you.

Hear this clearly: getting safe is not weak faith. Jesus told His friends, “When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another” (Matthew 10:23). He Himself once walked away from a crowd that wanted to kill Him (Luke 4:29–30). David ran from King Saul’s violence (1 Samuel 19).
Getting away from evil is obedience, not failure.

And forgiveness — when God grows it in you — does not mean pretending it didn’t happen. It does not mean going back into danger. God handles the justice Himself: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay” (Romans 12:19).

One more thing. A hurt runaway named Hagar met God in the desert and gave Him a name: “the God who sees me” (Genesis 16:13). In Jesus, that seeing came close enough to touch — He stopped for a bleeding woman everyone else pushed past, and called her “Daughter” (Mark 5:25–34).
What was done to you is not who you are. You are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). And “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds” (Psalm 147:3).

You are seen. Tell us as much or as little as you want — our family will pray for you by name.