Amigos

Amigos: Spanish word for friends. (From the Springs-Spanish-English Dictionary)


It's good to have some solid amigos. Friends that you can just hangout with. Friends that you eat with. Friends that you can call when you need them. Friends that you trust. Friends who are reliable. Friends who care. It's good to have some solid friends.

These are 2 of my friends from Brasil that I met 2 years ago.
 

Have any enemies? Anyone that you don't get along with? Anyone that hates you? Anyone that you just cannot stand? Maybe the very sight of this person makes you sick. Maybe when they walk in, you walk out.


This morning I sat and talked over some of the bible with a student. We're both reading through Romans. This whole thing of friends came up. When you read Romans, you have to ask yourself questions like, "Am I a friend of God?"

The first 3 chapters of Romans talks about how all men are sinful. We are that way by nature. We see that God hates sin, and cannot be in relationship with it. Where does that put us? Well, the bible teaches that we are born as enemies of God.

This is scary. This is terrifying. When we realize how jacked up we are, and how bad God hates that, we realize that we are in the deep in end of a pool called God's wrath.

But, then we got to Romans 5:11...

"So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. "

Romans 5:11 (NLT)

 

 

We were enemies of God. We had rebelled against Him, and He had turned away from us. There was a disconnect. A good, holy God cannot team up with sin. BUT, Jesus stepped in. Jesus laid down His life on the cross so that we could walk across as if He was a bridge to the Father. We, sinners, have been made friends with God! Not because of something we did, but because of what Jesus did.

 

What's your relationship with God like today? Is it tense? Is it awkward? Is it silent? Does it even exist? Or, is it one that is full of life? Is it one based on your trust and faith in Him and His grace to you? Do you sit and talk or do you walk by and wave? The truth is that we all have a relationship with God. But, we are either enemies or friends. Does your relationship with God feel distant and cold? Or, are you and God family? Ask yourself these tough questions. Maybe you were friends, but things have grown old. Come back. He is waiting to walk closely with you again.

 

Live out of thankfulness for this new relationship today. Let His grace flow through you. Live like a friend of God.

 



This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”

Romans 1:17 (NLT)