So friendship controversy.
At what point do you say to someone you care deeply about "I think I need to move on or re-evaluate why we are friends?"
The hardest part is when you really care about someone and have a whole friendship invested for a long period of time and then stuff starts to fall apart. Suppose you know someone or you think you know them well and then all of a sudden they do a 180 on you?
You've always seen them as a Christian and they always acted like one and then, with no warning, they say "Christianity isn't where it's at, I'm going to go off the deep end into total worldly territory instead and then call you a mean-spirited, moralistic jerk for not jumping into that deep end with me."
Yeah.
Sorry, but I've been at the edge of that diving board and looked over...and you know what? There's no water in that pool. None. It's just a long dive into a solid concrete bottom.
And nothing makes me more angry than being told I'm the problem because of my morals, ethics, values, and beliefs.
I'm loving. I'm tolerant. I do my very best to be the way the Lord asks me to be, putting my neighbor before myself and leaving judgment up to Him. I'm not perfect, I mess up often. Thank God that Jesus can cover up those mistakes for me. I'm not about to leave that surety to chase someone into whatever unfortunate pursuit they think suits them better than the the one they used to lead back when God meant something to them.
So when this happens, when friends don't just leave the fold, but race headfirst into hell, what does one do?
When you're being made to look like the bad person because you don't accept societal norms and you hold your ground on Christian beliefs, what do you say?
Do you bother to stick around in the friendship or do you realize it is time to let go?
I don't know. I'm not a quitter, but I don't see this one recovering...not if the things that are currently taking place continue.
I think I'm ready to throw in the towel. I think I have to.
It makes me sick.
But there is a part of me that wonders if once I do cut this tie...will the relief of not having it weigh on me every day be so enormous that I will have no regrets at all other than the one sad bit of knowledge that this person is giving up on their soul to follow earthly entertainment?
How do you weigh the 'what has been' up against the 'what is now'?
I just don't know.
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