THE RIGHT KIND OF FRIENDS: There are not bad friends, only wrong friendships.

Voice of Eden (episode 183)

Mon. 20th July 2020

#The right kind of friend

Key scripture: John 15:15

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Dear friend,

I strongly advocate for the thought that "everyone should have a friend," not just any kind of friend of course, but the right kind. However, a right and lasting friendship takes not just time but a lot more to find and build. One of the key reason for most of the problems we see in our communities and families today is caused by keeping the wrong kind of friendships.

I am one of those persons who believe there are no bad friends only wrong friendships. The reason is because, we can make friends with anybody ("good" or "bad") and it may be the right thing for both parties, but we should never make friends with the wrong persons, doesn't matter if the person is "good" or "bad." In fact, only God is good, so if we cannot be friends with someone because we think they are bad, does that make us good? I don't think so.

Stop trying to look for good friends and start searching for the right kind of friendship. Because I may be "good" but since the friendship is not right, you will never be able to bring out or see the good in me. A lot of things can make a friend the wrong friend even if the person isn't a bad friend. Things like motive (reason why we became friends), or Interest (I'm in it only for what I will get out of it), and a whole lot more. We'll look at it on Thursday, hopefully.

God wants to be your friend.

Listen friend, if God was looking for good friends, He would not think of any of us. Our relationship with God has many different aspects: God is our creator, Lord and master, judge, Redeemer, father, savior, and much more...but isn't it shocking to find out that the Almighty God also wants to be our friend? Does it even add up? Most of us only end at the creator - creation relationship with God, or maybe we take it further to father - son and that's all about it. A large number of Christians today are not friends with God, and we do not even know we could be. We pray only when we have a problem and need a way out, or when we think things are getting out of our control. We do not enjoy fellowship time with Jesus or enjoy telling Him how our day went. We keep Him out and only bring Him in when there is a mess and we need someone to clean it up. That's not how you treat a friend.

Friendship with God is possible only because of the grace of God and the sacrifice of Jesus.

God cannot love us so much and not want us to be friends with him. Friendship is the greater bond between two persons.

Take out sometime today and tell Jesus to bring the right relationship your path. I strongly believe that we have lost divine opportunities because of this "she/he is not a good person" mentally. Ask God to give you grace to be His friend and help you identify every friendship you are in that is not the right friendship.

On Thursday I will write on how to identify that a friendship isn't right and how to build the right friendship with God and others.

#voe

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#goodmorning