Claudette's Blog

Who is real?

With family members turning their backs on other family members, and friends who become fair weathered - meaning they are with you one minute and gone the next.

I find myself asking this question more and more.

These issues are frustrating to me, because I have gone through some hurtful situations in my own life, with people who were close.

These types of people proclaim the Word of God, yet, when you look to what fruit they produce, their tree is empty, or they are people who act like your friend one minute, then mistreat you the next. These types of people can be discerned as self-centered.

Again, the question is - Who is real? Who is consistent? Who is true? Where is the fruit of Christ?

I recall years back asking an individual, who had went through a difficult divorce, about how getting out and dating again was going, she looked at me and said it would go better if they were not all so self-absorbed.

2 Timothy warns us of the world becoming Godless in the Last Days.

2 Timothy 3 : 5 Amplified Bible warns:

BUT UNDERSTAND this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear].

...For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.

...[They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.

...[They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God.

...For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].

Timothy teaches us that many Believers will become lovers of Self. Oh! I know we would like to think Timothy was talking about the unsaved world, but the Bible is the guide for Believers, teaching us how to be and how not to be.

Maybe one of these fake masqueraders have hurt you, maybe it was a family member or an individual you thought was a friend, or maybe it was as elder in the church, but remember, just because they are an elder does not make them foolproof, if anything, it just makes them more experienced.

Whatever the case maybe, mark it down as experience, and be thankful to God for giving you the eyes and ears to discern, with a live example of how not to be.

Jesus tells us not to conform to this world.

Romans 12 : 2 NASB:

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

When the questions of “Who is real?” “Who is consistent?” “Who is true?” cross your mind, there is one sure answer - Jesus, He is real and He will never leave you nor forsake you.

The Word of God declares Jesus will not leave you comfortless.

John 14 : 18 KJV:

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

You have a friend, a real friend in Jesus!

Blessings,

Claudette Moss