I wrote this to a dear friend who has expressed what many are feeling, that is wondering what is wrong with them because they have few and sometimes no friends. Here was my answer to her.
" It's not you Sis, it's the culture of our time, the 2 Timothy 3 generation that has no interest in anyone but self. Most of my "close" friends are on Facebook, God has allowed us to find one another, those who are like-minded and in need of love and encouragement.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 "3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."
Imagine how few friends Noah or Lot had in their times! I am sure they grieved at times over the way people were acting and their rejection of God.
Also over the years, God has shown me that we don't have to do anything at all to be hated because those who are in rebellion sense Christ in us and He is the One they hate."
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