Are we still friends?

I saw something that really struck home with me the other day. It's a note from a child to a mom. As I read it, I concluded that probably the child had done something wrong and felt contrite about it. And along with contrition, came concern... concern that, because of the offense, the child would no longer be loved.

Here's the note:

Sometimes it's like that when we do something that we know is contrary to God's plan.

Dear God

This is for you.

I love you.

P.S. are we still friends?

And the amazing thing is His answer: a resounding Yes.

Most of us have times of doubt, times when we wonder if our sin is larger than God's capacity to forgive. And the good news is that God's love for us is boundless, and

WE
ARE
STILL
FRIENDS.

Jesus told us that quite plainly in John 15:

No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 

Wow.

So today, let us set aside any concern that God's love is so narrow as to close us out from His friendship. We're still friends... so let us go and bear fruit.

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