Friends with God

"So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend."   

                                                                                                      Exodus 33:11    NKJV 

How would you like to be on a first name basis with God? One of the requirements for this is to spend time with Him. The more time you spend with someone, the more you become like them. The term, 'Face to face', is a figure of speech that means 'Openly and Honestly'. To be friends with God requires openness and honesty. We have a choice to be like this or to be worldly.

To be friends with the world is to take on the values of the world. It leaves God out of the equation. The is why the values of today are not good. Children grow up learning their parent's values; if these values are the wrong ones, this may lead them to have no respect for anyone. This is why there is so much trouble on our streets today; they are coming from worldly values and God doesn't fit into them at all. Friendship with the world is hostility (enmity) with God James 4:4. Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world, makes themselves an enemy of God.

As believers, we are in the world but not of it. Jesus has made us and calls us, His friends John 15:15. Just let that sink in for a moment. If you believe in God, He believes in you and calls you His friend. However, for the intimacy of being face to face with Him, there is a need to give up self. Galatians 2:20 tells us:

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.'

This is called being 'totally sold out for God,' you live in the world but are not of the world's system, you are of the heavenly system and live 100% for Jesus. It is hard to live up to this standard but God helps us every inch of the way. Really, what we are saying is that, you have made a decision to serve Jesus and not man. Therefore your values are heavenly ones. 

Living in such a way, draws people to you because what they see in you, they need. They have tried everything else and it hasn't worked. They need Jesus and you have the ability to offer Him to them and help them to be friends with God too.

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