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Friday, July 08, 2005

Friends are Human...

This is only to answer a question I was posed with...Still NOBODY'S pastor ;-)

Ok, how do you deal when a friend that you put all your trust in and confide in turns their back on you suddenly?? How do you accept it when you put your neck and reputation out on the line just to teach them something and help them with a hard time in their life and they give you their ass and totally disregards your feelings??? The servant is no greater than the Master...{you'll understand what I mean when I'm done}

Remember after the Last Supper when Jesus knew that He was gettin ready to go through the words pain he's ever felt in his life, He left His disciples to pray while He went aside to pray for Himself. They argued that they would never leave Him and that they would protect Him because they had been together for so long, He's been there for them, His word changed their lives and they were stronger because He was with them. When Jesus tried to tell them that He was leaving them and that He was going to prepare a way for them, they didn't get it because they couldn't get it, but they were "willing" to go through the hard time with Christ so they promised to stay up and pray with Him. But Jesus went aside and prayed so hard that He began to sweat!! and then the sweat became like drops of blood!!! He agonized in prayer for an hour and when He went back to them they were fast asleep!!! These same guys that said they would stick with Jesus all the way could not even wait and pray for an hour.

Jesus asked, "Couldn't you stay awake and watch with me even an hour??" 3 times He went back to them and found them asleep because they were human and couldn't keep their eyes open {remember this was right after the Last Supper, so they probably caught the itis} what Jesus was gettin ready to go through, no man could even conceive the thought. But it wasn't for them to conceive or even go through because they weren't sent but Jesus bein part man wanted to know that someone was in His corner, praying with and for Him, watching with Him, keeping Him company during this hard time in His life and the ones He loved were asleep...

In our cases, there are times when we gotta go through somethings on our own. We can look to the left and Mommy and Daddy got their own problems and are no longer there for you. You can look to the right, and the friends you love that tell you they will always be there for you are gone about their business, either with new friends, jobs, issues, or relationships and aren't there for you. Yes you will feel betrayed and yes there will be hurt and pride issues but look over it...There's a time for everyone who's growing be left alone, no one to lean on but Christ. They're human too and when you're goin through this time, God may be settin them up to go through their own special time where you, who have been their crutch in some way must now be removed so He can see how they'll walk without you...
But you'll know the friendship is something real if you still care, if you see them doin something stupid and it hurts you, when they get involved in relationships you know will only distract them and you try to help them once again. Jesus's best friends turned their backs on Him because they couldn't help it so that He could be prepared to face the Hell in the morning and your friends may turn their backs on you too because there is something you gotta face by yourself, so they can't stay awake with you because they can't-they can't go where you're going and they can't feel what your gonna feel and in the end what you sweat blood about may actually turn around and bless them when the Hell is all over and your stone is rolled away...

But if the friendship is fake and someone just gave their behinds to you because you helped them and now they're "better" than you then you need to just like that nigga go!!! If you stayed up with them, prayed with them, fasted with them and then all of a sudden things begin to work out for them and they have the Negrosity to dismiss this friendship "shake the dust" of that friendship and move on...

Stay faithful because He's faithful and remember that humans got flaws too...every season in your life is not meant for you to go through with company-you learn how to cope with hard things better when you're by yourself anyway. The world turned their backs on Jesus because they couldn't understand what He had to do and the servant is no greater than the Master, so if Christ had to feel it, guess who's gonna feel it next???

Dr. C.H., MD {prayerfully}

posted by DSweet1 @ Friday, July 08, 2005

2 Comments:

At 1:03 PM, Anonymous said…

Thank you sooo much, maybe I will get one of these blog things but first I need to get these thoughts and emotions together...Thank You SOO MUCH!!luv you
At 9:48 AM, Anonymous said…

When I saw the question your friend asked, I said "Let's see how she answers this one.." and you bangged it right out...maybe you can balance bein MD and Rev. in the future...still one of my favs