When to be distant or when to cut all ties?

When I found God I ministered to others around me, close friends and family members, hoping to share the good news with them. They seemed interested with my new found relationship and happy for me but that happiness quickly turned to agitation when God and Jesus was spoken about on a regular basis.

I was told by a parent that they didn’t believe in Jesus and the other they weren’t ready to accept him and experienced avoidance of me in fear that the topic of Jesus would resurface. I was crushed. The people that raised me were in jeopardy of Gods judgement, and most of my close friends had little to no interest in building a relationship with God. I felt helpless in getting the message across to them. My emotions went from hopeful to hopeless in reaching them.

And then I couldn’t take it another day, they had no regard or respect for my new relationship with Christ. I stopped answering for them. I needed a break. I was torn at just ending the relationships and avoidance all together. And then God gently placed me in the room with the video of the bible playing, that right at the right time reminded me of what love was. It reminded me Love suffereth long, is kind, and does not seek her own. Love bareth all things, believeth all things and hopeth all things. I was instantly convicted. How dare I give up them when God didn’t give up on me.

Keep working with your friends and family members that may seem to be rejecting Christ, even if its from a distance. Find the bounderies comfortable for you. God may be using you to tug on their hearts. But if at anytime you feel as if they are causing you to sin through your interactions then you may have to cut them off, for your own salvation purposes. The bible speaks on the division caused by Christ. Take heed to it.

Romans 16:17King James Version (KJV)

17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

Matthew 10:35-40King James Version (KJV)

35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. Matthew 19:29

1 Corinthians 13King James Version (KJV)

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.