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    McQueen Media
    Mar 18, 2021
    Edited: Mar 18, 2021

    You have may have some frenemies …but God.

    in FAITH

    I heard, "A Frienemy is a friend who sees your worth, values your friendship, but is secretly holding a grudge against you. Makes no sense!" ---For years I had been very reluctant to believe that anyone I considered a "friend" could be any such thing! LOL, I was wrong....but God was faithful!! He hears those conversations that you don't & he sees the ill will that our hearts can't fathom exists towards you, and in time he will reveal all!! But only when you're ready....so stay ready, so you never have to get ready. When he reveals it, you will see clearly how it's nothing new, your heart just wouldn't let you see it before. In actuality, your heart probably could not have bared to know it any sooner. Stay ready in knowing that God is all seeing & all knowing and as long as YOU stay close to him...you're covered.



     

    Facing Our Frenemy

    Karen Ehman

    "Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy." Proverbs 27:6 (ESV)


    I am a sap for words and reading. I adore books—their look, the feel of their pages and even their smell. Not content to sit still in a waiting room, I'll pick up anything within reach and read it. Why, I still even read cereal boxes at breakfast!


    I especially love to learn new words, thereby increasing my vocabulary. And I am intrigued by the new words that are added to our language as the years go by. Ask any of my forty-something friends. In high school we'd never heard the words Internet, blog or download.


    Every so often, dictionaries must be updated with new words or with new meanings to old words. In fact, Merriam-Webster has added more than 100 entries to the latest edition of its Collegiate Dictionary. One of the new words listed in this latest round literally leapt off the page at me. It is the word "Frenemy " Yes, frenemy. It is defined as: One who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy.


    Sadly, I have had my share of frenemies in my life. Even more discouraging is that sometimes, I have been one.


    In middle school there were the girls who I thought liked me and wanted to include me in the popular group. However, they were just pumping me for info on a few of the latest boy-girl crushes. Once they'd garnered their data, they dumped me.


    Then there were the athletic boys in high school who seemed to really like me, and wanted to hang around me. As sports editor of the newspaper, I should have known they were just hoping to get a mention in the latest issue of the school publication.


    And there were the people I sometimes befriended, but not because I liked them. I didn't. It was because they could get me somewhere or something that I wanted.


    Fast forward to today. This era of social networking sites has only given rise to the number of frenemies who come out of the woodwork. I've heard school-aged girls talk about "accepting" someone as a friend on Facebook, not because they like her and really want to be her friend, but to "spy' on her and keep up on what is happening in her life. You know, who she likes, where she goes, who she hangs with.


    Even grown women befriend someone on these sites just to nose around, when in all actuality they can't stand the person they are "friends" with. So the backbiting and tongue-wagging continues, all while our posted profile faces smile at each other. False, fake … frenemies.


    The worst frenemy, however, is the greatest deceiver of all. He, in his worldly way, promises happiness, but delivers sorrow. He tricks and traps and leaves us regretful of our choices. His ways sparkle and glitter and entice. But in the end, they are dark. Like a lion in sheep's clothing, He comes to steal, kill and destroy. Bew