If there’s one thing I’ve learned to accept, is that people come and people go.. Friends you may have made in the past may no longer be around. People you expected to hang around for a while go. Why?
I think it’s because we serve an orderly God. He doesn’t just allow things to happen. He always seeks the best interest for His children. He allows things to happen for a reason. God brings people into your life with a purpose, and He removes people in your life for the same reason. However, it is in most circumstances we have absolutely no idea what the purpose is. We don’t comprehend the why.
Sometimes we are confused, and overthink that God is trying to hurt us or punish us when someone departs from our life. In all actuality He’s likely giving us a great reward.
So what are the main reasons why God removed people from our lives? And why do we have to let go of these people?
There is nothing accidental about life. If it is God’s will, it was part of His grand plan. And God’s grand plan entails that we enter heaven and be with Him. When we give God the authority to carry out His will for our lives, when wee entrust our lives to Him. The result of whoever or whatever stands in the way of God’s plan will be removed.
Jeremiah 29:11 says “For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a hope and a future.” we should trust God’s divine plan, and the Holy Spirits guidance even though we do not understand it yet.
Throughout the Bible there are many scriptures that helps us understand why God removed people from our lives.
Here are a few:
Solomon proclaims in Ecclesiastes 3:2 proclaims, “To everything, there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.” Every event in our lives occurs for a reason. God enable pyto stay with us for some time, but after the season is done, He will take them away for our benefit. we may not know what’s going to happen tomorrow but God does.
Why Must We Let Go Of The People God Removed?
I’ve learned the hard way when God removes someone from our lives, that denying God’s will only results in His will failing. God is God for a reason -He sees and knows all. He determines what will and will not happen.
“I declare the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.“ -Isaiah 46:10.
He writes the letters in our life story and flips through it’s pages. We have free will as characters in our story, but He knows the ending from the start.
We can spend time obsessing over the why? And we may even try to get the people back into our lives fora little while. But in all truth it will become clear that our only option is to embrace and accept the situation and move on.
Reasons why God Removes People From Your Life
1. God saves us from toxic people.
Remember that Jesus was betrayed by people (Matthew 26:23-25. People aren’t always as they seem, (friends and family). It’s easy to sometimes believe that people around us only have good intentions toward us. We believe they love us as much as we love them.
God sees heart and soul (Jeremiah 17:10), and anticipates what problems those people will cause us. He knows their deepest thoughts like He knows ours.
2. They have finished their mission in our life.
Sometimes people only emerge in our life to help us grow. Everyone imparts something valuable. Even though it can be a negative experience, we learn something from it.
3. God has better plans for us.
It’s our human nature to cling to things because we believe they are the greatest thing in the world. Yet, we have no clue what He has in store for us; all He needs from us is our willingness to trust Him so He can shower us with blessings.
1 Corinthians 2:9 declares it is written,
Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who live him.
4. God sends people we need; not who we want.
I think God takes people out of our lives because we don’t always know what we want -we just believe we do. We are only human beings; no matter how intelligent or intuitive we think we are, we can’t know what’s best for us. But, God does (Psalm 118:9).
He sends us people we need rather than who we want. As a result He does not always grant our requests. Maybe that’s God’s way of sparing us a great deal of trouble without our even knowing it.
5. God always wants to teach us something.
Sometimes God has no option to make us learn things the difficult way. I know sometimes I’m just to set I my ways and want things to stay easy. Sometimes I have to learn the hard way. And God has to tune me up.
One day, all evil will be done away with. But until that day, we can rely on God’s grace. He doesn’t always prevent tragedy, but His grace will always see though it.
I think God sometimes causes us to lose someone in order for us to realize that we are the only people we require in our lives. My Father was a safety net for many years. He was my rock on earth. Perhaps his passing away was a horrible event to have me set higher expectations for myself. I don’t think I would be who I am today, if my father wouldn’t have passed away when he did. God needed to show me I was capable of making the right choices on my own. Whatever the reason God blesses us through it all.
6. God wants us to get closer to Him.
God longs for us to be with Him. He wants fellowship with us. When people get in the way of our connection with Him, He removes people from our lives. Our hearts are continuously yearning for assistance. When some people are around and we are having a bad day, or a horrible year, our hearts reach out to someone to comfort us. That being the closest person to us -someone or something to make us happy.
There’s nothing wrong with letting others make you happy. According to God’s Word in Galatians 6:2 it tells us to, “Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way, we will fulfill the law of Christ.” But the threat comes when we use people to replace God in our hearts.
7. God always makes ways for us to experience something new.
Sometimes we are so busy hanging on to someone’s life because of our history. And as a result we can destroy our future by clinging to the past. If we want a new life, we must be willing to let go of the old one because the past will always be the past.
One of my favorite quotes says, “There’s a reason the windshield is bigger than the rear view mirror, because where we are going is more important than where we’ve been.”
Romans 8:28 declares, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who live Him; we have been called according to His purpose.
God always wants what’s best for us.
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