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Given by the righteous Judge

“To him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward” (Proverbs 11:18).

“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing” (2 Timothy 4:7,8).

“Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown” (Revelation 3:11).

May I be a friend of Jesus Christ without doing what He says?

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

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

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.)