Roman’s 5:10
God wants to be your best friend. Our relationship with Christ has many different aspects: Our creator and Maker, Lord and Master, Judge Redeemer, Father and savior and much more. In Eden we see God’s ideal relationship with Adam and Eve. They enjoyed an intimate friendship with God. But after the Fall, that ideal relationship was broken. Its difficult to imagine how an intimate friendship is possible between an omnipotent, invisible, perfect God and a sinful human.
We can become an intimate friend of God through constant conversation, through continual meditation, through repentance. ‘Pray without ceasing’ means conversing with God while we are working, driving, or on performing everyday tasks.
During this lent season, separate some time with God. Take off our worries and switch our attention from our problems to God. Through prayer we can talk with God and through meditation we can hear from God. Both prayer and meditation are essential to becoming a friend of God.
CLOSING PRAYER
Gracious Lord our Heavenly father, we come to your presence for your blessings. Father, we need to become intimate to you. Help us to look backward and think about our drawbacks, and Father help us to repent ourselves, so that we can come more closer to you Lord and can lead a newline in you. In Jesus precious name, we pray Amen.