September 12, 2010

Best Friends in Religion

Our relationship with God has different aspects: God is the Creator andthe Maker, Lord and Master, Judge, Redeemer, Father, Savior and more. But the most striking fact is that the Almighty God, longs to be our friend! In the garden of Eden we see the ideal relationship between God and us: Adam and Eve enjoyed a close friendship with him had no rituals or ceremonies or religion: just a simple and loving relationship between God and the people he had created. Without the clutter of guilt or fear, Adam and Eve delighted in God, and He in them. God created us to live continually in his presence, but after the fall of the ideal relationship broke down. Only a few people in the Old Testament had the privilege of divine friendship. Moses and Abraham were called "friends of God," David tells us that God was "a man after his heart," and Job, Enoch, and Noah had a close friendship with God. But in the Old Testament fear of God is more prevalent than friendship.

Jesus changed that. To pay for our sins on the cross, the veil of the temple that symbolized our separation from God was torn from top to bottom, as a sign that direct access to God was again open. Unlike the priests to be prepared for hours before meeting with him, we can now approach God at any time. The Bible says that "we now have the wonderful joy of the Lord in our lives, because Christ died for our sins and made us his friends" (Romans 5:11 - ADB). .

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