confirmed you
as a friend....
....on facebook.....
these are tough times....friends are
hard to find....maybe, except on
facebook....but what does it
mean to be a friend?
listen to Oswald Chambers:
(a modern paraphrase)
AM I MY FRIEND'S KEEPER?
Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible for your friends spiritually before God? For instance, if I allow any private deflection from God in my life, all my friends suffer. We "sit together in heavenly places." "Whether one friend suffers, all the friends suffer." When once you allow physical selfishness, mental slovenliness, moral obtuseness, spiritual density, everyone belonging to your crowd will suffer. "But," you say, "who is sufficient for these things if you erect a standard like that?"
"Our sufficiency is of God," and of Him alone.
"Ye shall be My witnesses." How many of us are willing to spend every ounce of nervous energy, of mental, moral and spiritual energy we have for Jesus Christ? That is the meaning of a witness in God's sense of the word. It takes time, be patient with yourself. God has left us on the earth - what for? To be saved and sanctified? No, to be at it for Him. Am I willing to be broken bread and poured out wine for Him? To be spoilt for this age, for this life, to be spoilt from every standpoint but one - saving as I can disciple men and women to the Lord Jesus Christ. My life as a friend is the way I say "thank you" to God for His unspeakable salvation. Remember it is quite possible for any one of us to be flung out as reprobate silver - ". . . lest that by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway."
"None of us lives to himself." this is a very high standard.
Romans 14:7.
We must do it for Jesus, He said:
No man can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he
will hold to the one,
and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God
and mammon.
(Matthew 6:24)
I call you friends….
You are my friends if
you obey my commandments.
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