NO-SALT SEASONINGS!

So last night I went to sleep about 1am wayyyy to early so of course so I began to think about 'seasonal relationships'. I'm basically sharing my thoughts so here I go lol. Often on social networks I hear people, and even myself, say some friends are 'seasonal'. I agree to a certain extent. At the same time during some of those friendships the parties involved make a covenant with each other. As I am growing more I'm understanding how serious covenant is to God. It's not something that is easily broken or dismissed. So what am I saying? I'm saying that we say things like 'that was a seasonal friendship, God had to remove her/him from my life'. Are we really saying that 'I can't deal with this person' 'I give up on them' 'She/he is not loveable so I'm out'??? Are we covering up the fact that we lack real, true, faithful, loyal, 'through different types of weather' endurance? Are we covering up the fact that we don't know how to love??? When something/someone doesn't look like the love that is pictured in our life are we just 'covering it up' by saying....'It's okay God for me to leave this friendship/covenant because it is seasonal'?

Really think about it? We didn't leave that person when we needed them! When our marriage was in trouble, when our self esteem was low, when we doubted our purpose, when freaking was more satisfying than worship, when we didn't have a job, when we needed prayer, when no one understood, when our children didn't act like they knew God, when you doubted you could provide, when mustard seed faith was only a hope!!!! We didn't say those friends were seasonal when we needed what they had to offer!!!! Were they seasonal when we needed prayer and they did just that??

Now that some of use have got a little bit of our purpose, the kids are alright, the children are calling, the job said 'yes', we get spirit filled, got a lil money, marriage is fresh, your prayer life is pretty good, etc etc now that same friend who labored in the spirit is now 'SEASONAL'??? I don't know. Sounds a 'wishy washy' to me. Now that their character, attitude, and or behavior may not be 'Christ-like' they are a hinderance. o_O They're all of a sudden 'seasonal'. *shrugs* Maybe we're seasonal...in and out of peoples lives. Maybe we're not consistent. Maybe we don't know how to love consistently through all seasons. Just maybe!

We must build relationship that have salt in them! That can be preserved and endure. Something that doesn't loose its flavor! Time out for 'no salt seasonal' relationship. Because so many of our relationships/friendships don't have any salt-when it begins to taste bland and ordinary we blame God like 'well you know some people just can't go with me to the next level' and that's kinda true but are you the reason that they can't go? Did you break covenant with them? How do you know if you broke covenant? If the other person didn't know they were seasonal. In the natural if you want to end an agreement with a company prematurely you must let them know but that doesn't mean there won't be additional fees. Some of what we call 'seasonal' is us breaking covenant prematurely because we don't understand how to love.

This what I was meditating on at 5am this morning....yeah exactly!!!!!!!! I didn't do a exegesis of every thought I shared...I'm just simply sharing :). Hopefully this will help a bit.
Blogtastically,
Shepherdess