This lesson was a very difficult one to learn for me. I had to experience some disappointments and let-downs to understand it properly.
We have friends and we have close friends, we also have friends like family and least of them all are our acquaintances. We have certain, expectations of each of these people, but what we don’t realize is that God has classified their responsibilities towards us differently, not even close to the way we see it.
If you would look back on your life, you would see that not everyone that was present when you were a child are there with you presently and not everyone that was close to you then are close to you now, as our environment changes, our acquaintances change, sometimes even our friends change, New faces, new friends, new friends like family.
Now, based on the expectations we have for these people according to the respective classification that we’ve put them in, if these expectations are not met or if we are denied certain requirements that we expect them to give without any issues, we conclude that they have let us down or betrayed us or have refused to help hence we are greatly disappointed at them.
That brings me to this point that not everyone you have put in a certain box to meet a certain need is the right person to carryout that responsibility at that time. They might have done it before, maybe for you, or for someone else, that doesn't mean God has designed them to do it for you again another time you need it.
Our help comes from God so we trust him but we have to see with his eyes, don’t get angry at your friends when they refuse to help or when they tell you they are unable to help you at that point. It’s may be very painful and disappointing especially when these people are inside the box of friends like family, I Know, but you need to understand something, For every door that God will open or has opened for You, he has placed the right people, specific people that will help you at your side. You might know them, they might be close to you or not close to you, it can be someone you just naturally say HI to (acquaintances) sometimes it might not be that friend like a sister, that doesn’t mean she hates you or she doesn’t see you as a friend anymore, understand this that God has not given her that responsibility to meet that need for you at that time .
You might have experienced this, sometimes these friends help us and at the end it doesn't work, that’s also because they are not the right person to do it, in most cases, the job gets done by a mere friend, sometimes not even a friend, maybe a stranger we met once.
Maybe someone close to you just casually walked out of your life, don’t be bitter it’s not easy but then it’s time for the next phase/level of your life that he/she wasn't meant to be in. Sometimes until these people walk away you might not discover a certain potential that God has placed in you.
Challenges makes you realize how strong you are and your staying power. It’s better to discover it than to suppress it due to the presence of a certain person. There’s a lot of potential in you that needs to unfold but you need to be able to accept the fact that not everyone is meant to experience/contribute to the unfolding of that potential.
Therefore, not everyone is meant for every phase of your life. Like the quote say " you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life". That’s it for today.
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