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[Joshua2417]

How can someone get use to doing the dirty work of Gods work. To do things most people don't understand and at times you have no full understanding yourself...just that it needs to be one this certian way, becuase its what you believe God has shown you to do. which in turn you do end up hurting, possibly hurting someones feelings and possibly losing people. yet it turns out for the better....as know as God redeemed that person and their situation for the greater good.

though your stuck alone, know one truly can understand what you did and why and can't see the big picture but you did good becuase that person is better off and happy and back to were they need to be in thier own walk in life and come closer to God. Why is it Being a servent so difficult and lonly at times.

If anyone understands this and has a thought please let me know.

Blessings

 

[Daughter]

Dear Joshua

I fully understand what you're talking about.
I'm an example of a person who used to be popular because I always said things people wanted to hear until the Lord showed me that I have to live according to His word and that He's the God of the bible and not the God of other people's interpretation.
I don't know what you did but you can test yourself always according to scripture.
I have lost contact with many friends as well and it's hard to get along with my family on my own. (It's by God's grace I can go along with them because I get hurt so many times.)

But there's something typically about knowing God.
The road is narrow...
Not many find that narrow road because they rather follow the lusts of their flesh instead of running after the Lord and crying for His mercy and realising that they are absolutely nothing and have absolutely nothing without Him... If you're a christian just to go to heaven but you don't love Him with all your heart soul and mind... you're fooling yourself... and sometimes this just means waking people up and telling them the full truth which doesn't tickle their ears but opens their eyes and shows them right where they are. (I'm still grateful for the few friends I have who did this with me.)

Anyway, here's something encouraging to read:

The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone.
The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.

The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens.
He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.
It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else."
from A. W. Tozer (The Loneliness of the Christian)

Much love in Christ

Sarah