I had planned to call her back. We hung up saying that we'll talk later about it. The thing is that I hardly ever talk to her anyway. She's pursued me as a friend, and I'll respond sometimes, (bad, I know, but I don't really like her enough for more,) and it's not an odd thing to not talk for even a year. We were getting a little closer, and she came with me to my Bible study once, (asked for prayer and cried while she was prayed over,) but....
She claims she wants to be closer to God again, and then she'll just not care and do her own thing, living in rebellion for a while until she has a crisis, calls me up, and wants to turn to God again. It's repetitive. I mean, I know we all do this, I'm very aware of my own routine of doing this to whatever degree, but I can't force her or push her. She's a big girl, she's a Christian, and I can't do more than tell it like it is to her.
If she willingly chooses to continue in, or plans to begin, such a sin, what am I to do? She thought it out and
planned it. Put
much thought into it. I'm not going to yell at her. I'm not going to try to force her. It has to be
her growth and
her conscience pricked. I can't do it for her. I told her like it is, she fully acknowledged that, and she made her choice.
I cannot laugh with her, hang out with her, and act normal with her knowing that she's doing this out-right, full-knowledge rebellion. I never got around to calling her back because I got busy and forgot for awhile, and then didn't know what to say more than what I already had. She knows, like she's always known, that she can call me up for help anytime. That's what our friendship has been the last four years. She gets a crisis, and I help her out.
I'm the only Christian friend she has that tries to lead a Christian life, (if not the only Christian she has, period.) I'm not the kind she'd hang out with regularly on a long term basis, and neither is she that to me. She's too worldly, and that gets in the way. She swears, makes jokes about her friend having sex just before coming down to say "hi" to the both of us in the parking lot, (that friend of hers was an old aquantance of mine that I didn't impact near as much as I had wanted,) and just has a bad attitude all too often. We aren't bosom buddies, but I'm there for her.
If she decides she needs to call me up for something, I'll be there for her. But until this issue of planned rebellion gets cleared up, it'll stand between us. What else am I to do? Preach to her God's stance on when it's okay to have sex? She already knows all that, and I already reminded her. Am I to mail her a tract on it? For her birthday in the spring I gave her a framed verse meant to remind her of her being God's daughter, and as a call to remain in that relationship. She loved it, and said it was exactly what she needed. Now that too can stand, staring her down, (
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,) as a constant word from me about her situation. Prayer for her, (very scarce as it is,) is also there for her from me. What more am I to do?