Fair weather friend
In the loving your enemies sermon, the scripture passage from Luke 6:27-36 located here talked about how Christians should love people better then those who aren’t Christians. Recently a friend of mine was going through some tough times and I allowed our communications to go slack. Then as his life starting to turn back toward the good we begin talking more often and I realized I am a fair weather friend. This is the way God loves me, he doesn’t leave me all alone to fend for myself in my time of need (thank goodness). So why is it so easy for me to do.
It’s easy to do because others can easily drag you down into their slump with them. A true friend doesn’t let that happen.
I guess to some degree being vulnerable with people and being sympathetic to their needs and problems is a difficult thing for me. Even though I don’t want to be I tend to fall into the category of people who believe people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Of course once I realize what I am doing I try to remind myself how much God has blessed me and how graced I am