daily java

Daily Java: If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it;
if a foe were raising himself against me, I could hide from him.
But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend,
with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship as we walked with the throng at the house of God.
(Psalm 55:12-14)

There is a real pain in the betrayal of a friend.

You have hung around together, ate together, associated as only friends do. And then he turns on you for some reason.

It may be something said that comes between  you, it may be that he wasn’t that good a friend in the first place, or he finds a better friendship, or something.

Sometimes it is just because he is not the person you thought he was, and the friendship was really only one-sided and you didn’t  know it.

Whatever it is, it hurts.

There have been several times in my life that this has happened. And each time leaves a scar. It also leaves a reluctance to get involved with people, because you just don’t know who will do it again.

In one case, I remember Ella and me confiding in a new friend that sometimes we don’t know who to be friends with because of this, and a month later, he had turned on us for some reason.

Maybe it is me. I don’t know. But it seems that people come out of the woodwork to be friends and then do something horrendous to our family.

It could be that I am an idiot. The idea has crossed my mind.

It also breeds an anger that can go deep if you let it.

I do not know why this is, why friends will betray – but it is true.

And it is surely sad. Makes you want to not have friends.