Let’s Be Friends

Beloved, let’s be friends! 

Every person has a longing for intimate connection, to know and to be known and loved by others. And this is my longing too because you are made in my image! I want to be known and loved by you.

Abraham was my friend, and I shared my thoughts and plans with him (Genesis 18:17; 2 Chronicles 20:7). With Moses, I spoke to him face to face as with a friend (Exodus 33:11). But I will not share my heart with just anyone, only with those I can trust. 

Will you be trustworthy with my heart? 

Will you spend time getting to know me? 

Will you let me mean more to you than the things I do for you? 

Will you be my friend?

Activation:

In Song of Songs 4:9 the king’s words to his beloved are: You have stolen my heart. The Hebrew word here is ‘libabthini’ which is rooted in a description of tearing bark off a tree. This is our loving Saviour’s description of his heart as we worship him – uncovered and laid bare! God himself chooses to make himself vulnerable to his friends and lovers and will share his very heart with us!

Ask Jesus to forgive you for the times you have wanted him to give you something more than you wanted to get to know him. Also, for the occasions you have been keener to work for him than be with him. Share your own heart with him as you would with a friend. But don’t leave it at that, listen also as he shares his heart with you. Take time, like Mary did, to simply sit with him (Luke 10:39). 

John 15:15 (NIV)

I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know his master’s business.

Instead, I call you friends, for everything I have received from the Father I have made known to you.

Psalm 25:14 (ESV)

The friendship of the Lord is with those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

John 2:23-24 (TPT)

While Jesus was at the Passover Feast, the number of his followers began to grow,

and many gave their allegiance to him because of all the miraculous signs they had seen him doing. But Jesus did not yet entrust himself to them because he knew how fickle human hearts could be.