“My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” (Psalm 22:1)
Sometimes we feel abandoned. Sometimes it’s because we really have been. (See verse above.)
And it’s the hardest thing when those who you thought might be your friends turn their back on you. I say “might” because many times we see others as closer relationships than they really are. (Why do we do that? Why do we give people power over our lives at that level?)
And sometimes the turning one’s back upon isn’t done purposely or with hurting a person in mind. But the fact, truth, reality, bottom line is: It hurts the person.
And it can be the hardest thing (at times) to recover from.
And to just say to someone, “Buck up” ~ now that’s the “manly” way to minister. The “bull in a china shop” method. I’ve been around those who discount feelings (since they aren’t theirs and it doesn’t affect their family and they didn’t have anything invested at the level you did).
The hope in it all (in a time of abandonment) is Jesus was abandoned for real ~ and by the closest friend, Father ~ so we would never be!
He (Christ) is always by our side even when everyone else is gone, disappears, vanishes, runs away, turns their back. (Hebrews 13:5c)
About Pastor Mike
(To view old map,