In my morning reading from a collage of Scriptures, I read this:
Ye are my friends,
if ye do whatsoever I command you.
John 15:14
if ye do whatsoever I command you.
John 15:14
But then, in the next verse, Jesus says…
Henceforth I call you not servants;
for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:
but I have called you friends.
John 15:15
for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:
but I have called you friends.
John 15:15
How am I not a servant if I do whatever the Lord tells me to do?
Then again, how can I be the Lord’s friend if I don’t do what He says?
Servant or friend, I don’t deserve any kind of good relationship with the Almighty.
(These were the last and first verses in what I read this morning: Daily Light on the Daily Path.)