This so resonates. I shared this morning with The Father my insecurities, aloneness. And the voice in my mind that says im alone, not good enough. He met me here tonight. Thank you Jesus in gratitude for his love and kindness. I pray he speaks to others here as clearly as he spoke to me. Holy Glory !
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I don’t know if I can put any kind of positive spin on this because lately God’s will seems to be yanking everything I love away from me. I’ve lost a lot of people I’ve loved and I’ve had friends turn against me for I don’t even know what reason and I keep asking God to try to help me see the good that’s going to come of this but for the last two years it’s just beat me down into the ground where I don’t even want to get up anymore. So “thy will be done” is too scary because his will being done is hurting me beyond my comprehension.
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Hello @Sheba0907
God has given you the answer already. It is in His Word.
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.” Matthew 10:34-36
The Word of God offendspeople who do not know God.
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12
You and your childhood group of friends. Think about them. You all did the same things. The good, the bad, the ugly. Think about your close nit inner circle of friends you had before you got saved. You all did the same things. The good, the bad, the ugly. You know their secrets, and they know yours. You were all the same.
Herein lies the problem. You are no longer the same. The Word declares that once you are saved, you,
“have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.” Colossians 3:10
But they are not new. They have not changed. They are the same. They still drink, do whatever, and mess around with this or that. Sleep around. Look at things you should no longer be looking at. Doing the things you USED to do, but now should no longer be doing. They are still doing and enjoying doing these things.
In a lot of cases, they want YOU to still be doing all these things too. When you say no? They become offended, and they think you think you are better than them. The sad truth is, no matter how much you may desire to have them join you and accept Jesus and give up their sin, unless God Himself calls them, and they decide for themselves to accept the call, they will never even hear what you say. Why? Because you are speaking a new tongue. You are speaking spiritually. They are seeing, hearing, and living in the flesh. Look what Jesus told the religious folks of the day.
“Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.” John 8:43
Your other family members are the same way. It is a personal decision to accept and believe or reject and not believe. However, Jesus gives us this assurance. Once you become adopted into the family, you then receive many more brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers. You are adopted into a very large family. The Family of God. Look what Jesus says here.
“Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”” Mark 10:28–31
Sometimes we have to let go. Follow Jesus. Don’t look back. He loves you, and He will show you the way.
Peter