FAITH CAPSULE: Friendship with God is enmity with worldly affairs.
Numbers 14:1-25
It is written, “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.” (John 15:14-15) Jesus called His entire disciples friend. Are you one of His disciples? Are you one of those who follow Him by obeying His commands? We serve a good God that is not difficult to relate with. He alone is our father who does not sleep nor slumber from keeping His children. Just as requested by Jesus, if indeed and in truth we obey His commands, we become His friends by way of His relationship with us. God is true to His word, to all of His creation which truly obeys Him. Also, He is not a partial God and will fulfill is word with all.
Abraham had conversation with God as a friend. A friend will not hide his plan from his friend; especially any plan that could affect the friend directly or in directly. God could not hide His plan of destroying Sodom and Gomorrah from Abraham. Genesis 18:17 documents, “And the LORD said, ‘Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?’” God knows who His friends are and He will not deny Himself in their lives.
Just as Abraham had a friend to friend conversation God, Moses also conversed with God as a friend will converse with friend. Number of times, he had to plead to God on behalf of the children of Israel by engaging God in conversation. As an obedient servant of the Most High God, Moses made himself available to enter into conversation with God in Exodus 33:11, “So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.”
We truly have a Father God that is available for us in every way of living life. However, friendship with world is distancing us from God. Friendship with God is enmity with the world. Also, friendship with God is to depart from all possible ways of the wicked and not to dwell in any way that is contrary to the Name of God. Friendship with God is to know and have the understanding that God is around and within you all the time. Sin and sinning is not a friendship relationship with God but separates man from God. Obey His commands and be a friend of God.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of obedience which is worthy to keep man in line as a friend of God.