Tonight was great to just sit around a campfire and talk about the difficulties of life with Ricky and Elliott. Very sharpening to hear about hardships and victories, battles that we are fighting together. Just a reminder that People are who the Bible is written to, and God fully intends for us to take advantage of friendships....
James 2:22-23 "You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"—and he was called a friend of God."
Faith is believing and as a result doing something or not doing something that you otherwise wouldn't or would do, respectively. The Bible's end is belief in God's righteousness as our own, the very Gospel of Christ the King coming to ransom his !*(@#@( and unfaithful subjects. Hence friend of God.
This doesn't even begin to land on me as it ought, so please rescue me. Stir my deadened heart to an appropriate response to such sweet truth. Thank you so much for calling me friend, me who was once so far off. In the name of the King and your perfect Son, Amen.
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