As I'm finishing up my freshman year of college, there are a few extremely important things I've learned. I'm not going to list them here because I only want to focus on one, but just know that college is a learning experience unlike any other. You are put in situations and become involved with people that change your life forever and are apart from people you've known forever. The lesson that took me forever to learn was that, sometimes, even though we miss people we love that can't be with us at the present moment, we have to keep on living and remain on God's path. It can be extremely painful, especially when we feel needed at home. However, this Bible verse really clarifies the necessity for separation from people we love sometimes.
15 Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever— 16 no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.
-Philemon 1:15-16
In essence, this verse embodies the idea that, though we dearly love people we can't be with right now, the separation is necessary because we need to follow our own paths that God has intended for us here on Earth so that we may spend eternity together with Him later on. It might seem better to have our friends/family here with us now, but maybe they need to be somewhere else so that they can follow Christ in the way God intended them to. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to serve as an example of Christianity and love that person when we are with them, but we can't be with them all the time. If we are meant to be with a person, God will create that opportunity.
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