The angels are perfect servants and we can never be perfect servants because we are not flawless here on earth. Nevertheless, God is looking for people like you and me. He wants to be your friend. You can become his friend too.
We all want to have good friends. Jesus is the best of all friends. He will always remain faithful to you. But God also wants to have good friends. .
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. Jn 15:15 NIV
If you learn to trust Jesus deeply and intimately, he will share the secrets of his heart with you.
As faithful Jews, the disciples had learnt a lot about God. They knew Bible texts by heart. Some of them were already disciples of John the Baptist before they met Jesus.
Then they met Jesus. From that moment on, everything centred around Jesus.
I write blogs in German, even though my first language is English. God has commissioned me to do missionary work among German speakers. I am not flawless in German, but I have learnt German well.
How can you learn a foreign language really well? Through concentration! You have to focus intensively on the new language.
How can you know God well? Spend time paying close attention to His word and His presence.
The disciples became Jesus' companions. They followed him.
But you can also have companions without experiencing a great friendship. You can be travelling on a tourist bus or a cruise ship. Your companions are often just acquaintances.
For many Christians, the church is like a bus or a ship. Jesus may theoretically be the captain, but who has an intimate friendship with the captain?
Jesus invited the disciples to be his personal companions.
Imagine the captain on a cruise ship invited you to eat at his table every day.
Imagine that the Queen of England has invited you to live in her palace and eat at her table three times a day.
Imagine you are a keen musician. Johann Sebastian Bach or Paul McCartney wants to invite you to live in his family home and be his student.
You are a friend of God if you know what God is doing.
How can you know what God is doing?
Only if God himself reveals or explains it to you.
How can you be sure that you are actually hearing God's voice? When you seek God's presence with all your heart, when you understand the Bible as a personal message from God.
You are my friends if you do what I command. Jn 15:14 NIV
God speaks to you because He loves you and He wants to have an intimate relationship with you.
But God also wants to help you and enable you to live a heavenly life.
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Mt 11:28 NASB95
If you really know Jesus personally, you will experience peace with God, not as a theological doctrine, but from your own experience.
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