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accepting that Jesus is my personal savior and true friend. It's a hard thing for me to accept that certain people were pretending to be my friends to spare my feelings. Or I would be around people that would gossip and judge other people and I didn't want to be around that. I don't want to waste my time with people that I feel aren't truly my friend.
 

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I want you to understand that people all have their own problems. It is important to try to make friends with others who share your values and beliefs but try to be understanding that sometimes they are not going to make the right decisions or might do something hurtful.

It is important not to set standards for others that are too high no one can reach them and to be forgiving.

(Yet at the same time know when someone is not going to make a good friend.)

For me Christ is not my buddy. He is my King, my Master, My Savior. He is not put on the same level as human friends.
 
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You accept Jesus as your personal savior and true friend when....your ready for it. You see Jesus is not something that should be forced on you, its something you choose for VOLENTARILY.

We live in a world that is filled with darkness and hatred, our purpose here on earth is to love and help other people, this is the meaning of life. Therefore its not such a strange thing that people do such acts of unconsiousness to eachother, we need to let the good people/events into our lives and cast the bad people /events out. In with the positive out with the negative. Reasoning from there on i think its a good thing that you have come to this realisation.
 
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