Hello everyone!
I didn't really know what I was going to post today, just that I was going to write something. So upon seeing the heading for the last post, I quickly decided that I want to take a look at the value of recognising those in your life who actually are there when you need them...
Friend for Some Seasons
Last time out, I already covered a definition of friendship that I related to and I must admit, I was surprised that, of all places, it came from Wikipedia because anyone can edit that page. But anyways, aside from curiosity, there was a great deal of truth to it so I'm going to put it again: -
Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association.
There are times in your life when there are people there for you and then there are times when there are not. What you do in those times often defines the sort of person that you really are, deep down under the surface. I've mentioned recently that the ethos of this blog is to bring an undiluted, yet loving gospel to the world that I exist in and that I inhabit.
I had to learn, pretty quickly, that the more people that deserted me, the more I was faced with a two-fold choice: -
- To blame people for not living up to their word of "I'll be there for you"; and
- There is a far better place to turn to when all people seem to abandon your cause.
In reality, we often feel like reacting in the first manner when people let us down, but let's just consider that it is hardly constructive. It causes us to harbour bitterness, unforgiveness, envy and if left untreated, unholy anger as there will always come a time in your life when people leave you, it's what they do best. All you have to remember is that they too have lives to live and priorities that are nothing to do with you or your circumstances.
Sometimes it is best to learn a lesson the hard way because it toughens you up for the roughshod way life will treat you sometimes without your input or say so. What you have got to remember is that there is a Friend, in those seasons where nobody seems willing to stand with you, who promised to "never leave you nor forsake you" (Deuteronomy 31:6).
Friend for ALL Seasons!
In this passage, Moses was anointing Joshua to be the one to lead the people into the Promised Land because his own actions had caused his dismissal from being the one to do it (Numbers 20:9-12). He had to make his peace with what irreparable damage his actions had done to his own entry into the Promised Land and therefore knew that Joshua needed to be reminded to lack not fear nor courage for God was with him.
Guess what... as God was with Joshua, so He is with you today.
I'll say it again for greater effect; as God was with Joshua in the Old Testament times, so He is with you today!
Revel in that fact, go on, I dare you!
God promised through Moses, to Joshua, that He was not going to leave him whilst he delivered the people into the land that He was giving them. Even then, after the deliverance, He wouldn't leave him because in utilising the word "never", Moses was pointing out that there never comes a point where God abandons us.
Sometimes He will draw back His protection whilst we deal with the consequences of our poorly thought out and executed words and actions when we fail to consult Him yet there will never come a point where He leaves us full stop.
Final Thought
If all of your friends have left you today, if they have deserted you because of something they or you said or did, just know that there is One who promises never to leave you, no matter if everyone else does!
My question to you today is, if you are in the boat like I am where people have turned their back upon you and your circumstances due to things they haven't explained to you, you are not alone.
God. Is. With. You.
Peace!
===TLP===
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