These things are more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” Mark 12:33 (NIrV) So is loving your neighbor as you love yourself. To love God with all your heart and mind and strength is very important. What other areas of your life do you tend to pour more effort into building than your relationship with God?Īm I giving God all of my heart, mind, and strength?.How much work or energy have you been putting into your friendship with God?.My energy and effort would be best spent in building a close friendship with him and watching him do things I could never do myself. ![]() Every time, God gives me ideas I would never have come up with on my own. So I decided recently to take walks on my lunch break to pray instead of working through lunch and trying to figure everything out myself. And because I haven’t been putting energy into building my friendship with God, I find myself without any confidence that God will guide me and have my back. Most recently I’ve seen myself laboring to find security in my job performance, spending my energy on trying to finish my never-ending to-do list and striving for the approval of people around me.īut ultimately I run into situations that are beyond me. The Bible tells us we are “laboring in vain” when we try to build our lives without God. In the next point, we’ll discuss what spiritual energy and effort look like, but for now, it’s important to stop and reflect on what you’ve been putting most of your energy into – your friendship with God, or something else in your life? Likewise, building our relationship with God takes spiritual energy and effort ( John 6:29, Luke 6:46-49). And it’s worth it in the end, all that hard work produces a secure, safe shelter. ![]() Even if you’ve never done it, you know that a lot of labor goes into building a house. Psalm 127:1 (AMP)īuilding something takes energy. Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain. How much energy and effort am I putting into my relationship with God? Remember that the goal is not perfection, but growing intimacy and experiencing the security and strength of being God’s friend. You can use these thirteen questions to reflect honestly on your friendship with God and find ways to grow closer to him. ![]() In this study we’ll look at how the Scriptures teach us we can be a good friend to God.
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