Take a trip down memory lane, recall how you met your best friend. Remember how you met, and how situations and experiences brought you closer to each other. Think about the major events in both of your lives that defined your relationship. If you wrote it down on paper it would read as a timeline, mapping out your growth from being acquaintances to being life-long, best friends. If you were to map out the timeline of your relationship with Christ, how would it read? Are you friends? Have you even met yet?
The same markers that you experience in your growing relationship with your best friend will be there when your relationship with Christ grows. They won’t be the same of course, no gossip sessions, shopping outings, or whatever boys do together. But a deeper understanding will emerge, a closeness that you cannot deny and evidence of your change.
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 NKJV
When you are in a growing relationship with Christ you learn that He is the ultimate friend with the absolute best benefits.
“But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.” Galatians 5:22-24 The Message
Christ is the best friend you could ever have, but like any other relationship it takes time, effort and commitment.
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend." -John Leonard
To being wise,
Meredith, Jennifer and Marisa
The same markers that you experience in your growing relationship with your best friend will be there when your relationship with Christ grows. They won’t be the same of course, no gossip sessions, shopping outings, or whatever boys do together. But a deeper understanding will emerge, a closeness that you cannot deny and evidence of your change.
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 NKJV
When you are in a growing relationship with Christ you learn that He is the ultimate friend with the absolute best benefits.
“But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.” Galatians 5:22-24 The Message
Christ is the best friend you could ever have, but like any other relationship it takes time, effort and commitment.
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend." -John Leonard
To being wise,
Meredith, Jennifer and Marisa
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