The Changes in My Friends

“Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.” (Revelations 2:4)

Life is always changing.  Some changes are good.  One I am looking forward to is the ability to drive.  Other changes are difficult to appreciate, like the way my friends are changing.  Like a crazy storyline from one of my favorite novels; overnight, these remnants of my friends look like them, and sound like them, but they are different.  I am perplexed.  I feel betrayed.

We always had fun with our conversations.  Talking about are dreams of possible careers, where we would like to live, or decorations we would like for our bedrooms.  We would spend hours letting are a imagination carry us away.   I knew we would grow up.   What I didn’t know, was that for some of my friends that would mean a complete change in focus.  It’s like I don’t know some of them anymore.  Once my closest confidants, these worldly, boy-crazed aliens have replaced them.  Their conversation is totally centered on boys and boyfriends.  Who’s “going out” with whom, which boys are the cutest and just what they are willing to do to get them.  They have become consumed with some twisted idea of perfection.  Once easy going girls, wearing dirt and scraped knees, suddenly they can’t leave the house without perfect makeup and the perfect outfit, just in case they might run into a boy. 

Their parents are oblivious; it’s not their fault, not really.  The deception is calculated.  These friends, who once talked openly with their parents, are suddenly living covert, double lives that a spy would envy.  Parents have become the enemy, and stealth is required to keep them unaware and unsuspecting of their daughters’ activities.  These girls no longer believe that they should listen to their parents.   They think that their parents are lame.  They “don’t understand.”  Their selfish desires are the driving force in their lives. 

What about how the Lord wants us to live?  Does that matter?  God’s will is but a shadow to them. Something that mattered to them once, but godly desires have been replaced by worldly ones. They have adopted the world’s idea of beauty verses Gods idea of beauty.  Once they clothed themselves in kindness, now they feel compelled to dress provocatively.   Once focused on God’s purpose for their lives, now they are focused on what boys would like, or what their “friends” will think.

My friends are changing, and I don’t like it.  Like a change of season, with once green leaves turning brown and drifting from the tree of life, they have fallen away from their first love.  Seeking what they think will bring them satisfaction; they drift aimlessly, blown about by the winds of worldly desires.  Following those who have fallen away before them, they join the pile of empty, souls who don’t understand what real love is. The love of Christ fulfills. It is the source of real satisfaction. 

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