Have you reached your walk-in Christ where you might be experiencing some changes in friends’ behavior, a cooling, a distancing, excuses why they are too busy to hang out with you? If your answer is yes…
Then I would like to be the first to congratulate you on your walk with the Lord. When we give our lives to him and truly accept the changes he brings, often those changes are friends, establishments, habits, and hauntings.
Galatians 2:20 NLT “My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
As we start to grow in our Lord and our walk with him deepens, we create a friendship with him and begin to reflect on him within ourselves. Often this is silent condemnation to friends still living in a world of darkness and their fleshly desires.
Proverbs 22:24-25 NCV “Don’t make friends with quick tempered people or spend time with those who have bad tempers. If you do, you will be like them. Then you are in real danger.” In other words, be cautious of the company you keep; their ways can corrupt quicker than our practices and examples can save!
Psalms 82:5 NCV “You know nothing. You don’t understand. You walk in the dark, while the world is falling apart.”
I would first like to say that these friends are lost, and the only real thing you can do is pray for them and try not to take it personally. God will remove obstacles from our lives, pain, illness, sorrow, and people.
Here’s some comfort from God if you find yourself possibly experiencing this. Proverbs 13:20-21 NCV “Spend time with the wise and you will become wise, but the friend of fools will suffer. Trouble always comes to sinners, but good people have success.”
John 15:18-20 NCV “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it loves its own. But I have chosen you out of the world, so you don’t belong to it. That is why the world hates you.”
I can’t think of a better reason to be hated! Remember if you lose a friend or two, God will replace with new ones, if he closes a door, he will open a window. Don’t count your loss as a loss, count it as a win. You are a testimony, and if that makes people uncomfortable, then…Hallelujah!!!
Be blessed and remember; You are never alone. Thank you for joining me today. 🥰
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