Let the Leaves Fall
Let the Leaves Fall:
Paul said something in 2 Timothy 4:16 that resonated with me:
Friendships- Family and my next:
“The first time I was brought before the judge, no one came with me. Everyone abandoned me… May it not be counted against them.”
Paul didn’t deny what happened.
He told the truth about the wound without allowing the wound to determine the posture of his heart. He loved them anyway!
“May it not be counted against them.”
They didn’t invite you? They never took you around their family? They revealed your secrets? They used you? Abused you?
They fell off for a reason. Recognize that they cannot go with you to your next without dishonoring what they meant to you when they could go with you in your back then. Walk into your now!
Some of you need the courage to let people fall off in this season.
Stop dragging relationships into places where the grace for them has lifted simply because you’re afraid of being misunderstood, alone, and left out.
Stop shrinking back into an old version of yourself! In Christ, you are a new creature, a changed vessel. Your appetite has changed.
You need a clean heart for where God is taking you. Love them and let them fall off!
Everybody cannot go into every era with you, but everybody who cannot go does not have to become your enemy. Let them fall off! Don’t chase them and don’t look back!
May God give us the maturity to enter what He’s doing next without carrying resentment from what ended.
May your relationships align with your next.
Be blessed and be a blessing!