Five Friends

When I think about my friends, I would say that I have five types of friends:

• ·         The rooted ones- these friends are fully rooted in God and just love God.

·         The unbelievers- these ones just haven’t experienced the love of God and don’t know what they are missing out on but they will in Jesus name. I do enjoy spending time with this type of friends but I always try to be conscious that I am supposed to set an example because it's so easy to conform to their behaviour without realising. 

·         The players- certain behaviours of these type of friend’s anger and upset me when I feel God’s heart. These are mainly the people that confuse the world because they claim that they are Christians, yet they do things to blaspheme God. They KNOW between right and wrong but yet CHOOSE to do wrong (sin is a choice). For example, some friends don’t invite me to their parties because I will ruin it. Not ruin it as in I will crash up the place but ruin it in terms of my presence will not make them comfortable to do all the nonsense and sinful things that they want to do. I remember going to my first house party. I thought it will be a normal party with Christian music because the person throwing the party was a Christian. It was the exact opposite! It felt like I was in a dark room with people who had completely lost their identities in God and had no self value- most of the people there were Christians! It was my first time of experiencing someone drunk that close me and it made me slightly scared. Not up to five minutes, I picked up my bag and coat and went home without letting anyone see me. What’s funny to me about this story is that on the day of the party, I was with a friend who’s just got back from University and I was saying to her that I really want to experience what’s it’s like going to clubbing during my University fresher’s week. It seems like God answered my prayer. After that party, I don’t need to experience it at University anymore. I have accepted the fact that a lot of my lukewarm friends will not invite me to certain outings/ parties and that’s okay. But they all know how to invite me to special programmes in their church -.- Okay.

I think being lukewarm is a mindset. How? When  a Christian who has the Holy Spirit inside of them does things that God is not pleased with, I believe your conscious/a voice inside tells you what you’re doing is wrong. If you ignore that voice long enough, worldly behaviours become normal to you and you end up thinking its okay to behave like that. I do pray for my friends that are lukewarm to change and make Jesus their priority.

·         The babies- these friends know a bit about God and they are interested in God but if you don’t follow them up in their walk with God, they drift from God and easily go back to the world.

·         The tasters- these friends are tasting what God can do for them. They haven’t made up their mind whether they want to be a Christian and it’s a working progress to get them to make their mind up. They tend to remember God as the problem solver because they must have experienced God solving their problems.