Rhonda, Thanks for sharing that with us. I always have trouble forwarding
these when I get them from PTL Ministries.
Love,
Pat Ferguson
At 05:13 AM 10/5/04, you wrote:
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> THE PURPOSE-DRIVENŽ LIFE Daily Devotional October 5, 2004
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> Friend of God
> by John Fischer
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> Worshiping God involves counting on Him as your friend. This
>may be a new thought to some who are used to thinking of God as more aloof
>and distant when it comes to a personal relationship with any one of us. It
>is much more common to think of God as high and lifted up than to think of
>Him as a companion. That may be because He is high and lifted up, and His
>glory fills the whole earth. But the truly amazing thing about God is that
>He will relate to any one of us as a friend. He meets us at our level, and
>in doing so, confirms both our intrinsic value and our value to Him.
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> The Old Testament portrays God as a friend to Moses, Abraham and
>David, often sparring with them in debate over His rule of the nation of
>Israel. Adam walked and talked with God in the Garden of Eden in the cool
>of the morning. Enoch walked so closely with God that one day, they simply
>walked right into heaven. And Jesus, as the embodiment of God in human
>form, was called a friend of sinners, and had close relationships with His
>twelve disciples and a very special relationship with Mary, Martha, and
>Lazarus.
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> God is into being a friend to you and me. Not that He is a
>buddy or "one of the guys." Our access to Him as a friend is a revered part
>of our worship. To worship God is to carry on a conversation with Him-to
>talk with Him, share our hopes and dreams and fears with Him, and even our
>displeasure or impatience with the way things are going. He wants our
>honesty. (He knows us anyway, better than we know ourselves, so how foolish
>it is to try and be something we are not around God!)
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> In C.S. Lewis's beloved Chronicles of Narnia, the children have
>a special relationship with Aslan, the lion, who represents Christ in the
>story. They are allowed to share some intimate moments with him where they
>sink their hands into the deep fur of his golden mane, or feel the warmth of
>his breath or ride on his back over the Narnian countryside. But Lewis is
>careful to remind us that Aslan, though warm to these friendly gestures, is
>not a tame lion.
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> God is still God and though He is our friend, we worship Him as
>God and marvel that He would befriend us. "When I look at the night sky and
>see the work of your fingers-the moon and the stars that you have set in
>place-what are mortals that you should think of us, and mere humans that you
>should care for us?" Psalm 8:3-4
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> And yet He does! And that is the greatest wonder of all.
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> John Fischer is an author, speaker, and song writer based in
>Southern California. His latest book, Love Him in the Morning has been
>released by Revell Publishing.
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