Friendship with Jesus

Jesus said, “I no longer call you servants, but friends…” but we have a hard time receiving that as a present reality. Our service to the Lord, regardless of the type, can quickly fall prey to the law of sin and death. How? By looking for strength in the law of sowing and reaping. We have an image in our minds of what the fruit of the seeds we are sowing should look like. When we see something different than our image, we reflect first on ourself, the strength, resolve and determination of the sower, and then the seed, and then the soil all the while asking what went wrong. Those expectations are based on perceived ends. Our perceptions are limited at best by the time and space in which we have lived, and still live, small when compared with the eternal perspective of Jesus. Jesus encourages us from His vantage point of victory and resurrection , now, but which looks like future and someday in our eyes. When we trust Him, because He is our friend and would not steer us wrong, the the law of life in Christ Jesus negates the law of sin and death. We live in His now according to His perspective by faith, which pleases God. And that truly strengthens us!