The purpose of this post is to take a negative thing set against me and to turn it in to a positive thing for me.
So a very brief back story, a little over 3 years ago my faith changed. I began to walk as Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah did. I began to, for the first time in my life, actively follow and obey the laws and commands of Yehovah (God) found in the first five books(Torah) of the Bible. My best friend at the time was a guy by the name of Daniel Schultz. Unbeknownst to me, he had looked in to this faith known as The Way, or Hebrew Roots, or Torah Observance, and he came to the conclusion it was heresy. (The Apostle Paul in the books of Acts (24:14) calls this faithThe Way and that is what I refer to it as). I did not come to the same conclusion. So when I turned to this faith, he turned to hating me and those who believe as I do.
We have argued and debated alot over the last 3 years. He refused to accept any of the views I presented as truth and mocked me and my beliefs at every turn. Am I innocent in all this, no. I've got angry with him and lost my cool. Once a few years ago when he was relentless in an online debate and mocking people left and right I posted links to whitepages for him and told people to give him a call if they wanted to actually talk to him. To me there is/was nothing wrong with that, anyone who could see his name and location available on facebook at that time and google it as I did, and could acquire that info. I did apologize to him for doing that.
Needless to say he has continued to show me he is "concerned" for me and wants me to come back to Christianity by attacking me and hating me. He has resorted to stealing pics of me from my facebook and then using them to make mocking and insulting memes about me. I have had several of them removed from the site he uses but he persists. I can't stop him from doing it and I can't change what he does, what I can change is how I respond to it and let it affect me.
He has even went so far as to leave mocking comments on my youtube videos I have posted here on steemit. He makes comments as if I'm following Judaism. I am not following Judaism. Yeshua preached against following the doctrines and traditions of men, which is what Judaism is.
So I have decided to take the memes he makes and post them on here. I can get rewarded for getting hated on. Some might say I can't do that since I didn't make the memes but I disagree since the meme's are made with pictures of mine that were taken without my permission and being used without my permission, so why shouldn't I profit from them?
So if you think this type of behavior from someone who claims for follow Jesus is deplorable then give this post an upvote. If you think this type of mocking meme making is childish harassment then give this post an upvote. If you think being a cyber bully is a bad thing then give this post a resteem.
Going forward any time Daniel Schultz, Dan Schultzy, Dan Schultheiss, DerMeister821, dmschultzy, or whatever online persona he chooses to go by, posts a meme of me, I will take it and create a post about it. That is why this post is Part 1 of .....
As Always..
Don't be afraid to try, you never know what you might learn about yourself in the process.
Also if anyone can tell me how to resize an image in the steemit editor please do. Every option I found was from more than 6 months ago and no longer works with the steemit editor.