What kind of people do you call your friends? Do they lift you up or bring you down? This is something I have struggled with over the years. I thought my friends were people that lifted me up, yet would do things to hurt me or put me down, or talk about me. And I still found myself going back to the same people over and over and for some reason expecting a different result because they said they were christians, yet they would bear bad fruit. Looking back I can see how much I was being used, and I was letting it happen, hoping they would change the next time around.
1 Corinthians 15:33 - Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.
Pretty soon I realized instead of doing what I should be doing, I was getting caught up in their ways. I changed, I wasn't happy, I felt like I didn't deserve to be happy, then I started to feel like what they said about me was true and I was questioning who I was. Not once, for a long time, did I even try to see myself the way God sees me. I stopped thinking positive and started taking blame for every little thing.
Proverbs 22:24-25 - Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.
God calls us His friend. How amazing is that? Really, we don't even need earthly friends, He is all we need. But if you are blessed enough to find a good circle of people, who lift you up, and help you along in your journey and stay with you through the storms. Stick with them! They are going to love you for you, no matter what. I remember the moment I felt like I hit rock bottom, I felt so alone, like no one cared outside my family, that's when I felt God the most and realized His love for me. And I let go and started to fully trust Him, and suddenly I started getting these God sent people in my life! They showed me what friendship truly is as well as what it is to love the way Christ loves us. If you're in a similar situation, please know, you don't have to put up with people that bring you down, and please don't bring others down! You can make such a difference in the lives of others and they can make a difference in yours! Don't change for anyone but stand firm in your walk!
John 15:12-15 - My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
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