Beyond Friendship

When we are new in community, we always look for friendship. It just make sense, God is present in our relationships and most of the time He makes His presence felt through this relationships.

The more we grow in our relationship with God the more we come into consciousness that friendship is but a step towards a more complete relationship with God. When we grow more in relationship with God the more we view friendships as secondary to God.

Our friendships are to be anchored at the foot of Christ. Meaning, when friendships blur our purpose of renewal in Christ, when friendships distracts our relationship with God, when friend/s becomes our focus instead of God in the friendship, then we are actually putting our growth in Christ in jeopardy and our real friendship into question. There can never be real friendship apart from Christ. Christ has to be the center and ultimate focus of friendship. Without Him, friends end up users. In friendships He increase, our human friendships decrease.

Never be deceive of friendships that seems to be going stronger because it may in fact already leading you to another road. It can only be strong in Christ. Friendships in Christ does not gloss over mistakes; it speaks the truth with love. It seeks the goodness of the other and points the other to Christ.

So friends, let us all anchor our friendships, in Christ. Beyond our human friendships is our friendship with God.