No One Will Ever Hurt Our Feelings Again

John 16:22-27, “And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.”

John 16:22 is perhaps my favorite Bible prophecy, “And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.” A blessed glorious day is coming in the afterlife (if you are a born again believer), when NO ONE will ever hurt our feelings again because Christ will take control over every facet of our lives. NO ONE will ever deprive us of our joy again.

All my life, I have heard well-meaning preachers say that you can lose your happiness (i.e., what happens to you), but no one could ever take away your inner joy of soul. Yet, the inspired Scriptures teach otherwise. Jesus plainly acknowledged that, in fact, ungodly people can rob us of our joy if we are weak in the faith, “...and your joy no man taketh from you” (John 16:22b). Someone once emailed my ministry and said: “People equal pain.” I am compelled to fully agree with the dear fella. I dare say less than 1% of Christians walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25).

In Matthew 11:1-11, we find John the Baptist down and discouraged in prison. In sharp contrast, in Acts 16:25 we see the Apostle Paul and Silas singing hymns while incarcerated in prison. Why did John succumb to his dire circumstances while Paul and Silas rejoiced in it? I cannot say for certain, but my guess would be their individual responses to the crisis. John, Paul and Silas were all facing execution in prison. Herod had just executed the Apostle James in Acts 12:2-3, which pleased the wicked Jews.

John focused on his dire circumstances, whereas Paul and Silas by faith prayed and sang hymns to the LORD. Herod successfully took away John's joy. The story of John the Baptist being discouraged in prison encouraged me. because I admittedly tend to be more like John the Baptist than Paul and Silas. I humbly think I wouldn't have been discouraged like John. In Matthew 11:11, Jesus complimented John the Baptist by calling him the greatest ever born among women. ...

Matthew 11:11, “Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”

If the greatest man who ever lived could be broken down to become discouraged in prison, then it can happen to anybody. By the way, I believe the reason why John was the greatest man was simply because he prepared the way of the greatest of all, the God-man, Jesus Christ (Malachi 3:1).

The truth is that among people (all of which are sinners) you'll encounter everything from soup to nuts, from A to Z. Some people are sweet and kind. Others are irritating and some rotten dogs. All humans are sinners by nature (Romans 5:12).

To combat hurt feelings, I carry Gospel tracts with me at all times. I put a rubber band around them and attached it to my mobile phone, which hangs around my neck at all times while on-the-go. When people run their stupid wicked mouths, I kindly hand them a Gospel tract, taking things to a higher spiritual level. It matters not if they refuse the tract, because at least I tried to share the Gospel with them, and that always brightens my day. Presently, I am giving people the tract titled: “Nothing But The Truth,” by military chaplain David Rutkin.

The inspired Holy Bible tells us that Satan is “the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.” (Ephesians 2:2). I believe the Devil inspires his children to speak evil things to hurt God's children. An unsaved sinner doesn't realize that Satan is their father. So, they unknowingly do according to their father's will. That is what Jesus taught (John 8:44).

I have to go through a personal self-counselling process quite often, when people hurt my feelings. This process has been quite effective for me over the years. I think about all the suffering people in this world, compared to my hurt feelings. Tens of thousands of Iraqi people have been murdered in recent weeks. How does my hurt feelings compare? God sees our hurt feelings (Psalms 139:2-6; Hebrews 4:13). Jesus promised in John 16:22 that when He returns in the future, we will rejoice as saints, and NO MAN will ever take away our joy again.