Friend - John 15:15

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Today we will read John 15:15 where Jesus says, “I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.”

How do you see God? More importantly, how does God see you?

Usually when we pray we use words we don’t usually use in everyday conversation. We speak to Him with decorum and pretense. We treat God as an outsider - and He is truly and greatly beyond us - but that’s not the point here. We often treat God like… a stranger.

Yet Jesus calls us friends - or at least his disciples - and we can say “us” by extension. Friends. Hardly what you’d expect from the Deity. And yet if we take scripture seriously, God thinks of us as friends.

And what makes us friends? A relationship. Revealing - or revelation within a relationship. We’re not friends with Jesus just because. No, we’re friends because He has shared secrets. Jesus has shared, has revealed, everything He heard from the Father. And this secret sharing makes us friends.

Do you believe this? Again you don’t have to be a scholar, but do you accept Jesus and His words as the secrets of God thus making you friends?

“God, You’re my friend. You like me and I like You. I accept You as You are - but I want to know more about You. Reveal it. Let me see.”