Friends are difficult.
Don't get me wrong, I love my friends to death, but sometimes they just test you and push your buttons. Even if its something stupid and really isn't that big of deal can hurt you pretty bad. Like, if your group of girls goes out without telling you, or, something bigger, like them talking bad about you. They are just difficult.
But I believe that God puts people in your life for a reason. Some are there to make you turn tail and run back to the light, some are there because He knows you can help them, and bring them home, and others are there to make your life a happier place, and take you out to movies spontaneously. But I don't think we ever really know why God placed them with us, until we do some deep reflecting, and even then we still may not know. I've had friends in my life, who were dragging me to such a dark place, and now that I look back at it, it made me run back to God with arms as open as I could manage and a heart being held together by thread for fixing. It's given me a testimony, that one day could help someone else. I also have friends that stand together with me and run with me towards God, they are always there when I need them, and bible study with them is a blast. Then there are my friends that can be generalized as difficult. I don't mean this in a rude way either. Some are stubborn, others have been dealt a hard time, and refuse to see light. It's just a struggle.
"God is interesting in building you up" -Notes from Roger Archers sermon on 4/13/13
Sometimes these friendships result in chaos, hurt and loss of trust, and we just ask God, why, and we question him. Some can even turn away from him. It's just for character building, because when we think about it, we wouldn't be the way we are now if something didn't happen to us. If we didn't face someone stabbing us in the back, we wouldn't pick friends that were beneficial to us. If we didn't have a bad influence 1.) We wouldn't know how bad our parents punishments could be c:, and 2.) We wouldn't have the morals and rules for ourselves that we have now. There are endless examples of this.
In the last few months I have seen such a change in myself, in my personality, in my attitude, the amount of people who want to talk to me, the jumping around and acting a fool in public places has defiantly increased. I just feel a ton better, and it's a result of me coming back to God.
I had every intention of ending with a nicer point, and I also had the intention of not making this a wall of text, but I guess both of those didn't work out did it? Well, on a sidenote I'm going to try and get three posts in a week. It sounds like a valid number and something that I could easily do.
- xo Julia
But I believe that God puts people in your life for a reason. Some are there to make you turn tail and run back to the light, some are there because He knows you can help them, and bring them home, and others are there to make your life a happier place, and take you out to movies spontaneously. But I don't think we ever really know why God placed them with us, until we do some deep reflecting, and even then we still may not know. I've had friends in my life, who were dragging me to such a dark place, and now that I look back at it, it made me run back to God with arms as open as I could manage and a heart being held together by thread for fixing. It's given me a testimony, that one day could help someone else. I also have friends that stand together with me and run with me towards God, they are always there when I need them, and bible study with them is a blast. Then there are my friends that can be generalized as difficult. I don't mean this in a rude way either. Some are stubborn, others have been dealt a hard time, and refuse to see light. It's just a struggle.
"God is interesting in building you up" -Notes from Roger Archers sermon on 4/13/13
Sometimes these friendships result in chaos, hurt and loss of trust, and we just ask God, why, and we question him. Some can even turn away from him. It's just for character building, because when we think about it, we wouldn't be the way we are now if something didn't happen to us. If we didn't face someone stabbing us in the back, we wouldn't pick friends that were beneficial to us. If we didn't have a bad influence 1.) We wouldn't know how bad our parents punishments could be c:, and 2.) We wouldn't have the morals and rules for ourselves that we have now. There are endless examples of this.
In the last few months I have seen such a change in myself, in my personality, in my attitude, the amount of people who want to talk to me, the jumping around and acting a fool in public places has defiantly increased. I just feel a ton better, and it's a result of me coming back to God.
I had every intention of ending with a nicer point, and I also had the intention of not making this a wall of text, but I guess both of those didn't work out did it? Well, on a sidenote I'm going to try and get three posts in a week. It sounds like a valid number and something that I could easily do.
- xo Julia
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