He Calls Me Friend

I recently lost a friend because I didn't take enough time out for them and it hurt so bad I cried  until I couldn't breathe.  I thought how could I have let this happen; how could I have made her feel so bad.  Then I thought about all of the people that I call friend, all the people who call me friend.  Have I been treating everyone like this?  Right then and there I stopped and thanked God that he would always call me friend, but in the same breathe I asked God do I treat you that way?  Do you feel the way that she feels?  The truth is that all relationships take work including our friendships, and sometimes the friendship that goes least maintained is our friendship with God.  I know now that the Lord has been showing me in different ways that I need to be a better friend to him.  I am good at answering people's calls and emails, but God is calling me to initiate the conversations now, to send out the message and wait for the response.  I need to learn how to be a more attentive friend, and I believe that if I can get it right with God than other friendships will improve.  In his preparation of me for the things he wants me to do and be he has called me to be a better friend. If we all were good friends this world would be different.  Brotherly love is powerful and this is the love that God has called all Christians to.  Neighborly love is the fulfillment of the law.  We have to learn how to love and practice love every moment of every day if we want to make changes in this world, if we want people to be drawn to Christ, if we want to honor the friends in our lives, if we want to make friends of our enemies.  God will always call us friend, but we want him to smile when he says it.  I don't want my friendship with God or anyone else to cause them pain.  Of course letting someone into our hearts means making ourselves vulnerable to be hurt and to sometimes accidentally hurt others, but I want to heal those wounds not let them fester.  Jesus bled on us because he chose to be our friend.  I don't want to be an infection in his wound.  LORD teach me to be a good friend and bring healing more than pain.  Thank you for opening up my understanding concerning your desire for closer relationship with me and with all of your people.  I want that too.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

5 things that could keep you from getting so angry

So I find that there are certain things that when done make for a much better day than when I don't do them.  As a single mom sometimes it gets hard to do these and then everything seems to be a bigger ordeal for me. Lord help me to do better with that.  I would tell you don't judge me, but I know you are going to do it anyway so I will say please be gracious toward me.  1.  Start the snowball of positive thinking : For me this means prayers of thanks, reading my Bible, listening to positive music, writing a letter to God or to myself, even watching some Veggie Tales (what do you know about those Veggies?)  with my son sometimes.   The reality is there is enough negative that comes at me; why would I invite anything other than a flood of positive truth into my mind and my life? This is the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it...or else!!!  haha just kidding (sort of) 2.  Wash up!: Remember when I said be gracious?...
Read more

Mr. Sandman Where are you?

I was told that by 6 months old or so my son should be effectively sleeping through the night. Well, Tomorrow is his first birthday and he has already woken up twice...make that three times because he woke up while I was writing this! I really miss sleeping and I want my little one to get sleep too. He wakes up every two or three hours to nurse. I try to get him to go back to sleep, but a baby who is standing up and pulling on the side of his crib isn't going back to sleep easily. I sing, swing, shush , and attempt to swaddle, but he won't have any of it. Sometimes I let him cry his way back to sleep, but it only last for about a half hour before he reawakens more determined than before. The screaming wears on my nerves and the lack of sleep is wearing on my days. Some days I think "This is it. This is my life now. I will never feel rested again, and I will never be fully alert again." I expected to lose sleep when I found out I was pregnant. I expected to be tired, b...
Read more

I have a dream

I used to dream all the time that I was witnessing to people.  People would ask me questions and I would begin to speak about the goodness of the Lord, and how Jesus was the solution to all of their problems or desires.  I feel anointed to be having those dreams again.  Maybe someone needs these words.  I talk about my journey of faith, but maybe you haven't begun that journey yet so let me tell you about Jesus.  Jesus is the Christ, the savior of the world, the messiah, the only begotten son of God.  Jesus is God in humanity. He came down to earth, lived a human life, did miraculous things to show people who he was and how much he loved them.  Jesus felt every human emotion that any of us have ever felt. Jesus taught us how to live as people of God.  Then he died so that we wouldn't have to be separated from him anymore.   You see sin separates us from God because he is holy.  We all have sinned therefore we all should be separated fro...
Read more