Do you ever get stuck thinking about all the friends who have abandoned you? This is a topic my husband and I covered last night on our date (yes, date).
When someone changes jobs or moves away often friends lose touch. As an adult I have moved my fair share. The status quo shifts, a lot changes. It hurts to think someone doesn't value your friendship enough to keep it going or they only communicate with you when 1. YOU initiate or 2. they need you. How many have reduced your friendship to a Christmas card, if that? Do they even care? Now that's insecurity! Those sad thoughts may be false and just the devil trying to keep us paralyzed from thinking about and blessing others.
God NEVER abandons us (although sometimes WE abandon Him). What unconditional love our Father lavishes on us in spite of ourselves! Hallelujah! He longs to be closer than a friend to us. His thoughts about us are too wonderful for words because He loves us more than anyone else ever could (Read Psalm 139:17-19.)
Some friends are in your life only for a season and for your own peace that needs to be okay. Be the best friend you can be to those presently in your life. God is with you for a lifetime, all of eternity, in fact, if you believe in Him and His son Jesus. If we are full of God we will have the security we crave. Instead of dwelling on faded relationships let's think about that which is lovely, excellent, true, praiseworthy, ... as the apostle Paul wrote in Philippians 4:8.
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