Our God is a faithful God! You can be sure that He will not leave you in a mess!

When you accepted Jesus as your Savior, asking Him to forgive you and cover your sins with His blood, He did just that and you were justified. That means, you were made right with God through Jesus Christ.

You were also sanctified through Jesus Christ as you accepted Him by faith. Being sanctified means being "set apart" to be "made holy" or having a "special purpose". God told Jeremiah:

 This is a "new thing" for us, but we also sanctify or "set ourselves apart" by choosing God’s word as the truth that will make it possible for us to be made into the new creation we were meant to be. Each of us has been created for a special purpose…that is, to represent the character of Jesus Christ in our walk in this world. He wants you to ‘put-off’ the old habits and start training in a new way of thinking by ‘putting on’ new habits.

He wants you to be able to have friends and to be a friend. He knows our needs in that area. The following list may help you identify some of the ways we mess up our relationships:

1. Unconsciously rejecting others because of the way they react to our words or body language.
   
2. Being easily distracted when someone is speaking or wanting our attention.
   
3. Allowing preoccupation with our time and activities to take precedent over being available when needed by someone else.
   
4. Tearing down a person’s choices or decisions, face to face or in secret.
   
5. Holding unforgiveness in our hearts against a person for wrongs they have committed.
   
6. Being proud of our own accomplishments or possessions, making others feel they can’t compete.
   
7. Showing impulsiveness in our speech or actions…too blunt or tactless.
   
8. Being secretive about ourselves so another has difficulty figuring us out.
   
9. Being dishonest in our commitments with others.
   
10. Gossiping or talking about someone to others.