"My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path"
Lately I've found myself distant from most, drawing back from people who were once people I spoke to everyday. I closed the door to a friendship that I had for over 15 years and I just find myself wanting to be around other saints. Please don't get me wrong I still have love for all of my friends and family, I guess you can say I'm lost in God's presence. I no longer desire to be around people who aren't trying to develop a close relationship with Christ, I no longer want to go to the club or speak to people that have to curse all the time, I guess I've changed. I was told by my Gaga and older saints, that as I grow in Christ, friends and some family will get left behind. Now don't have me mistaken, I'm no angel, I stumble and fall, like everyone else my flesh is weak, but I realize putting myself around people that are of this world and putting myself in places I should not be is on me. I had to change my circle, I had to say no I don't wanna go there.
The friendship I ended was complete instructions by God, which was "close the door" and I fought with it for months, I kept trying to keep the friendship, I sought out counsel from other Christians but then one day God just gave me peace about it. I felt less heavy, I felt like we had reached the finish line and do I still love her ? Of course but the chapter was closed and I'm OK with that.
Sometimes us as Christians we tend to want God to open all of these doors for us while we are still standing in the hallway of our old lives. We can't have the world and Jesus too, we have to chose.
While at a retreat this weekend, I heard a speaker say, "you have to look forward and stop looking back at Sodom". Which means your blessings are ahead of you, looking back or going back to your old life is only going to lead to death. Just as it happened for Lot's wife.
Why are we so scared to let go?
Why do we hold on to people and things that hinder our relationship with The Lord?
Why do we continue to look back at Sodom?
Why do we keep doors open that are supposed to be closed?
BECAUSE WE DO NOT TRUST GOD!!!! There are too many examples in the scriptures that God Is Able To Do All Things!!!!! But yet in still we doubt him. As for me I'm tired of looking back and I'm ready for the great destiny Hod has for me. We have to trust God when he closes a door, we have to trust a God in all things because "he knows the plans he has for us".
We are not here to judge but people of this world, don't know Christ so they live how they want and do what they want, but we are children of the most high, we are the light for the us, everything we do is watched, WE CANNOT DO WHAT OTHERS DO, and so with that we have to do better and be better examples. Everyone can't go where you're destined to go.
- So they ask me to pick my top best friends I laugh and said The Father The Son and the Holy Spirit, the best friends any one could ever ask for!!!'
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