Are You Friends with GOD?

Climbing up the dune pathway to the parking lot, I reflected on the company I just enjoyed with 15 women gathered in a circle of beach chairs in the sand. “Who would have imagined ‘Bible Study at the Beach’ could be so much fun?,” I mentioned to the friend climbing the dune beside me. Sun shining overhead, ocean whispering in the background, laughter and reflections shared…how absolutely refreshing!

Friendship is an amazing thing and God made us to need and want relationship. Why? Because He placed a hunger for relationship and connection at the core of our being…a soul hunger and thirst that would cause us to seek relationship with Him. We read David’s words in the Bible, “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.”

I recently read these words, “God is not only incomprehensible and wonderful. He is also personal… The God who created heaven and earth is a person, and we are persons. That’s what makes it possible to have a personal relationship with God…In fact, a personal relationship with God is inescapable. The relationship is established in creation between God and us.

“I can deny the existence of God, but all that does is put me in an estranged relationship with God. lt is a relationship now of hostility and denial, but it is still a relationship.

“So the question is not whether there is a personal relationship, but rather what is the ‘quality’ of that relationship. Is it healthy or an unhealthy one? Is it a redeemed or estranged one? Is it a relationship of love or hate?”-Anonymous

This month we are talking about friendship and your relationship with God is the first and most important friendship to be considered. Do you have an intimate relationship with God through friendship with His Son, Jesus Christ? Maybe you are very religious but never considered a friendship relationship with God even a possibility. Or maybe you would like a deeper relationship with God than you are currently experiencing.

Please email us at info@yourrefreshedlife.com and we will send you a little book FREE OF CHARGE that describes how you can become friends with God.  Or we will send another book if you simply want to deepen the friendship you already have with Him. Both are possible. We can’t wait to share with you the most rewarding friendship you will even know.