How’s Your Friendship?

Prayer ~ Lord Jesus, thank you for not only renewing my friendship with You but giving me new life…spiritually…and hope for the future. An eternal future with You will be glorious—and I long for that day! I am willing to serve You—and I treasure our friendship…and my relationship not only to You but to our Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit, too.

 For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. Romans 5:10-11

 

Meditate. Think about friendship.

 

How’s your friendship…with old friends or new friends…with Jesus? Some of our friendships and relationships have been stressed by the COVID pandemic or plandemic. We couldn’t visit each other…or gather in large groups for such a long time. Sure, we could talk on the phone, text message, FaceTime, or Zoom, but there is nothing like seeing someone in person and hugging! Since the mandates have been relaxed or lifted, we can restore those relationships. Hug!

 

God in His infinite wisdom allowed our relationship with Him to be restored, renewed and rekindled with the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ. Through God’s grace and mercy, Jesus had to die ONLY once for the sins of everyone. He was sinless—so He had no debt to pay. We all have sinned and can never attain a sinless state so that we can stand before our holy God Almighty—but Jesus paid for us—for our sins so that we can come to God the Father—and have a relationship with Him, as well as with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. That very fact deserves a Hallelujah! Jesus paid it all…all to Him we owe. Now we can declare that we are friends of God. What a great and awesome realization. Because of Jesus, now we can be friends with God. Friends. Friends forever. No pandemic can ever separate us from God. Nothing can separate us from God, just as Paul wrote to the church in Rome.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39

How’s your friendship?

 

Verses of Salvation ~ But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God's condemnation. Romans 5:8-9

 

Memory Verse of the Week ~ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

 

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