What is our relationship with God? He's the Potter, we're the Clay? Yes, but it's not the end of the story. He is the Shepherd; we are the Sheep. He is the Master; we are the Servants. Sheep don't recognize the love of the Shepherd, they only experience; they don't share it. Servants taste the love, and can express it, too, but there is no real intimacy. So we are called the sons and daughters of God. But yet the intimacy that God means for us to have with him is not yet total. Most of us stop at Masters and Servants, some even escalate into the sons and daughters. How many say that we are real-life friends with God? "I've got a friend in Jesus," as the sixties song goes. I could stop here, but that's not the end. Here we reach the epiphany of what our relationship with God is meant to be - we are the Beloved, he is the Lover, and our communion is more intimate and fulfilling than anything ever. That's what it's meant to be.
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Thats a great way to think about it....do we all think of God as our freind. Or just an acquaintance? Thats something that we should all ponder about. We will never realize God's love for us until we can truly experience Him full throttle....during woship, during prayer maybe?...Jesus thinks of us as His best freeinds and as children...so lets be a good freind to
Him.
yet we can't be content to just be friends and children. a father doesn't show his most extreme love to his children - he shows it to their mother. and you don't marry your friends. we are called to holy marriage - in the strictest sense, we are the Beloved, and he is the Lover.
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