It is clear that the cliche is true that birds of a feather flock together.
People with bad destructive habits and behavior generally seem to hang out together socially and when you are being called by Jesus to not be like that, God will call you out of those circles and to something new.
If this sounds like something that you are going through this article is for you.
It seems for most of my life I have been losing people that I love.
I seem to have a good friend and then I seem to lose that friend and life has to go on as my heart aches.
God seems to give me another friend to make up, I grow close and then the same thing seems to happen to me.
I am very happy God allows me to have friends in the first place and I am not just lonely all the time without one friend in the world.
One thing that I mentioned before is that birds of a feather flock together.
It seems that we gather around ourselves people that are like us.
If we are in rebellion to God, we are gossipers and always feeling rejected by people we tend to hang around other people with those three characteristics and breaking out of that circle of friends cannot be a gradual thing.
I had a group of friends like that.
All night we would talk about how hopeless different churches were and how if we ran the church it would be better.
We would talk about all the bad things the church did and how it did not fully cater to what we wanted.
We would talk about how the pastors could be better.
We would talk about all the bad things about other people and how they are not very nice and not as good as they think they are.
Have you had friends like me? It took a guy to try and murder me where we used to spend the nights twice before I stopped meeting with my friends there.
When I was not seeing my friends there I began to start to write articles and as you can see if you look I have written a few.
I missed my main friend and Jesus told me that he could no longer be my friend and that he is a bad influence on my for the aforementioned reasons.
God over 3 years has weaned me off that sort of friendship.
It has been hard to cope with but I have experienced tremendous personal change and real growth in myself.
My pastor says that she can see I have made some real progress and that my former friend is still where he was 3 years ago.
If you are like me and you have some people that God is showing you that are no good for your life here are some suggestions I have for you.
Use the time to get closer to God In these past 3 years my loneliness and drawn my closer to God and Jesus through and act of my won will.
I have pursued a relationship with those in heaven that love me and I have learned to talk to them and spend time with them.
Get busy When you lose people that you love a good way to deal with the pain of loss is to get yourself busy doing something productive.
The more time you are busy and engaged doing something, the less down time you have to be sad.
I spend time in my community center helping out most weeks, I write articles, shoot you tube videos, and run a prophetic website.
I am still a little lonely but I am too busy to really be sad about it.
Wait on God for new friends Rather than go from one friend to another that is not from God, it is best for you to wait until God leads a new person into your life and you can ask God about them.
If God approves of them, then you have yourself a new friend to replace the old one.
My prayers are with you