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LEARN FROM A BETRAYAL.I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.”There is nothing wrong with seeking godly advice, or counsel, if that is
what we receive! But ultimately we rely on God. People are fallible, we all fall and make mistakes, but it is God who will
never let us down. There are godly people we can trust, but even they are not perfect. So hence we must give them some grace.
The hardest thing is when we have been betrayed by those closest to us.
It is very painful, and can be very hurting. It is in these times that it takes God to help us forgive them, something not
easily done in such a hard time, especially in our humanly resources. But God is able to help us, and sometimes it takes a
long time. Betrayal can be one of the bad things that humans have...but we betray one another because:
Betrayal is going to happen everyday
and every turn that we face in life...but try not to ram your head in it...but ease it down...and also...just because the
"church sister" betrayed you does not mean that you should betray others...rather try your best not to betray anyone
else because you know how that feels...it should be like the golden rule... Learn
your lesson and walk away wiser for it. I may not trust anyone, because I never had anyone to trust (and anyone I did decide
to trust in disappointed me), and because the Lord commands me not to trust in men. One only confirms the other until I've
built up a hard resistance to trusting people. What ends up happening is that people get mighty offended when you tell them
you cannot place your trust in them, and even doubly offended when you tell them why - because they don't believe there's
a God - so they think you'd rather trust in some phantom non-existent idea than in them. We'll they are just fools, because
God is real and they are in darkness, and they have not one wise bone in their bodies. They cannot see how God proves himself
to us every day in the small ways in which he takes care of us. They also cannot see that God is taking care of them by sending
rain upon their heads - they take too much for granted. So, you confide in someone, you do not trust in them. You share your troubles, you do not believe other people can solve them. You get things off you chest (we all need to now and then, even David had a best friend whom he loved) but your very best friend is always the Lord. you may have had parents that lied to you, brothers that beat you up, friends that abandoned you, teachers who hated you, strangers who stole from you, landlords who tried to put you out on the street, celebrities you admired who turned out to be cross-dressers, preachers who cursed you, animals that bit you, bosses who insulted you, girlfriends who manipulated you, etc, etc. We all go through this kind of stuff, there is a lesson to be learned and many never learn it. |
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