building your life for where you're going

I was watching one of Pastor Steven's sermons online last night. It was the third one in his Purple People Leader series. One of the things he said was this:

"You can't build your life for where you are--you have to build it for where you're going."

I've got this burning feeling that for me, building my life for where I'm going means having to choose who my friends are. It pains me to have to think that I'm going to have to burn more bridges with people, but it's true that bad company corrupts good character. That's not to say some of my current friends are bad people...they're just bad for the cause that I'm serving under now. In other words, they're going to keep me from serving Christ to the fullest of my ability.

For those of you that I'm going to be forced to burn the bridge with, I'm sorry. I hope you won't think any less of me.

If anyone's reading this, put in a prayer for me, will ya?