Friendship with God

One thing that I believe every human being desires, and to a large extent needs, is friends. Everybody wants to have people that they feel close to, connected with, share a significant bond. Sometimes family members don't always make the best friends. As you get older, it seems like good friends are hard to come by; but it doesn't stop us from wanting these types of close-knit relationships.

What we fail to realize a lot of times is that God wants friends, too. We often think of God as this Great Deity in the skies who simply wants to run the Earth and have us be obedient to His Divine Will. This is true to a certain extent, but what God desires from His human creation is much deeper than this. God wants us to share a Divine friendship with Him that will last through Eternity.

In order to have a friendship with God, we first have to recognize that Christianity is not a religion, it is a Relationship. No functional relationship simply revolves around the "do's and don'ts". Any effective and productive relationship revolves around Communication. Yes, God wants us to obey Him, but you won't obey Him if you don't communicate with Him.

Communication is a two-way street. God wants to talk to us, but He also wants us to talk to Him. The primary means by which God speaks to us is through His Word. That's why it's important to read the Bible everyday because you're allowing God to talk to you. The primary way that we talk to God is through prayer. It is amazing how many professing Christians really don''t like to pray. Maybe it's because they don't have much of a relationship with God.


Saints, it's time; God is looking for some friends. Some friends that He can trust, some friends He can confide in, some friends He can depend on. Are you ready, willing and available to have a Friendship with God?

Prayer
Heavenly Father, we come before your Throne of Grace, thanking you and praising you for the Privilege and Opportunity to be called the Friends of God. Father, we ask that you have mercy for our distance and slothfulness in developing a truly Intimate relationship with you. We ask Father that you tear down any walls and hardness in our hearts that is keeping us from pressing into your Presence. May your Spirit make us fit and qualified to have a Friendship with You. In the Mighty Name of Jesus we do pray, Amen.