40 Days to a Meaningful Life - Day 10

Becoming Best Friends With God ~

God wants to be your friend, your best friend. What do you think of that? Your relationship with God is so vitally important to Him. He wants to walk with you in your daily business, talk with you on a continual basis wherever you are, and allow you a one on one friendship with the Creator of the universe. What more could anyone want in life?

We were created to have a personal relationship with God and He made a way for us to call on Jesus at any time through Jesus' death on the cross. Why would you not want to commune with a God that gave up His own Son to have an eternal friendship with you? II Corinthians 5:18 reminds us that we have been reconciled back to fellowship with Jesus. We are not like servants that know nothing of their masters business, but friends whom Jesus shares all things His Father shares with Him. Our friendship with God is meant to be a close, trusting relationship that is like no other on this earth. Acts 17:29 says we are the offspring of God Himself. We can't get much closer or intimate with our ultimate Father than that, now can we?

Our constant conversation with God is a privilege and knowing He wants to continually converse with us should bring intense pleasure. I Thessalonians 5:17 says to pray without ceasing. Praying is simply having conversation with God in reverence to Him. We may praise Him, thank Him, ask of Him, and rejoice with Him anytime of the day or night. He is interested in the minutest area of my life to the biggest decisions we could ever make. He wants to be a part of our lives in every way. If praying is actually communicating with God, we can be praying all throughout the day. A popular book called Practicing the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence (Warren, 2002) in the seventeenth century. This book opened the eyes of most believers to the fact that we can commune with God even while doing the most menial of tasks. God can change our attitude towards anything we are doing and hold our attention in a loving conversation. Whether we are cleaning, shopping, paying bills, buying a vehicle, making love to our spouse, if we fix our minds on the presence of God in our midst, we are communicating with God. He always listens, always cares and is always there. It is us that has to remember Him, to make time for Him and keep Him abreast of our decisions, attitudes and wishes in life. We are the apple of His eye, we mean more than the world to Him and He delights Himself in us.

Thinking about God's Word throughout the day is a wonderful way to keep connected with Him in our daily activities. Meditating on God's Word helps to overcome the chaos in our lives, fretting of our minds and stress within our hearts. I am a pro at worrying and I must realize if I spend too much time going over the same dilemma in my mind, this is worry and is a sin. If I take the situation to God in prayer (communication), and spend time focusing on His word, this is meditation. Rick Warren says if we know how to worry we surely know how to meditate. We just need to switch our attention from our problems to scriptures. Psalm 25:14 says "The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him; He will show them His covenant."

God yearns to share with us his plan for our lives, those around us and His people on this earth. He wants an intimate friendship with us that can be replaced by no one and nothing. Let's get in the habit of involving God in every aspect of our lives. We can communicate with Him anywhere we are at any time of the day or night. Communing and listening to God speak to us, deepens our relationship with Him and blesses His heart as much as it does ours. Friendship with God is one of the most prized relationships we can have in life; let's not neglect this friendship that's meant to last for eternity.