I’ve been thinking about this over the last few days…

I had a friend who said Goodbye to me…

It was a final Goodbye…

I understand why my friend did this…

It made me extremely sad…

There was nothing that I could do, nothing that I could say, I just had to let them go…

I had to be true to what I believed and they had to be true to what they believed…

It tore me up inside…

But that is what I had to do…

I had to respect their wishes and let them go…

And I did…

And yet, in the last few days, I now realize that in the Lord we never let each other go…

Our new selves are linked forever in the Lord, we will spend eternity together…

It is only our flesh (or what we used to be before we came to know the Lord) which says Goodbye and it does so to protect itself from more pain…

So yes, we have to respect it when our friend says Goodbye and doesn’t want to have anything to do with us anymore because we respect what they actually say to us and honour that but in the spirit their new heart is not saying Goodbye to our new self (they might be saying Goodbye to our flesh) and there will be a restoration of that relationship, either in the Lord’s presence when we go to be with the Lord or before in His timing…

There is no Goodbye in the Lord…

We are members of one another…

And that is a comforting thought…

Love,

Andrew