There will always be those who will not believe in the change in your life. Some of your friends and associates will not be able to make the change. They will choose to remain in a common relationship with you instead of respecting your new appointment.
It may be because they are jealous of what God has done for you, how He has elevated you to a new position. A spirit of entitlement is telling them you owe them. Therefore, they feel if you go up, they should, too. When they were doing things for you, they said it was out of friendship, but later you found out there were strings attached all along. They used you as a playing card during the years you’ve been friends. They never realized it was God who called you.
Can you just imagine what your old running partners would say? “You were my drinking buddy. We chased the ladies together. We partied together, and now you’re holy and doing work for God? Quit playing!”
Remember that Jesus was taunted and mocked. He was a carpenter's kid … surely not the Son of God. You too may be called everything but a child of God. Count up the cost before you make the change to change.
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