Answered prayer about a friend
One of my friends recently told me he’d stopped smoking weed. It wasn’t the first time he told me that and to be honest, I wasn’t really listening because we were playing basketball but now that I think about it, I believe it was genuine. I think it’s genuine this time because he’s telling his friends to also quit since it’s (in his words) “irresponsible and immature.” Not only that, but it was a passing comment and not something he went out of his way to tell me so it wasn’t like he was trying to impress me or gain my approval.
This has always been something I’ve been praying for my group of friends that I’ve known since jr. high. I’ve been telling them for years not to do it and they probably think it’s because I’m Christian and that Christianity takes a “all weed is evil” stance. I admit that was my reasoning throughout my freshman and sophomore years but I’ve come to realize that it’s more important that they know Jesus rather than listening to some legalistic rule of not doing drugs.
Anyway, it’s pretty awesome God answered this prayer. And it’s one of those things where I had no involvement with him quitting aside from prayer but it was his own realization that he needed to stop.
-Leo
