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Weekly Greeting: Sunday 30 March
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2008-03-27 16:33
Dear Friends
True friendship provides us with some of the greater joys available to humans. For a brief moment bring to mind a person who has been / is a true friend to you and you will experience the pleasurable warmth that such a friend produces in you.
True friends love you in a way that seeks what is best for you. True friends will encourage you, listen to you, walk with you, help you, lift you up, comfort you and go to the ends of the earth for you.
Moses was such a friend to God for it is written that the Lord spoke to him "as a man speaks with his friend." Ex 33.11
At one time, Jesus spoke to His disciples and called them His friends .." I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you." John 15:15
We have the incredible privilege of entering into a friendship with God. He wants what is best for us and as we grow in our friendship with Him, we will learn to love the same things and the same truth as God does.
In John 21:15-17 Jesus restores Peter into friendship with Him. He was God's friend.
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