God, My Friend

Hi teman2, aku mau sharing sdkt ttg menjadi teman dengan Tuhan... setelah aku baca purpose driven life day 12 dan bener2 think about the verses, the things Rick Warren said, I was enlightened...

Selama ini mungkin ada dari kita--incld myself--yang pkir bahwa Tuhan cuma mencari orang yang sempurna. jadi kalau kita sudah berdosa, kita pikir kita nggak layak lagi untuk doa/datang ke Tuhan, tetapi kenyataanya bukan! Tuhan nggak pernah menaruh barrier yg mencegah kita utk menjadi temanya! teman2 Tuhan yg di Alkitab--seperti Abraham, Daud, Moses...semuanya nggak ada yang sempurna! they are humans--they complained to God, resented God, committed sins... and yet God called them His friends! amazing huh?! Justru Tuhan suka orang yang sering complain ke Tuhan--yang honest toward Him about their feelings. Buktinya Tuhan tdk pernah bilang ke David or Job, "SHUT UP!!!! STOP COMPLAINING! You're sooo irritating... man, don;t u know I can flick you to death with my fingernail?!"

No, no, no... Our God is a loving God! He desires that we KNOW Him! Many of us who've known God for a really long time--who have served Him at church--being involved in all sorts of things, thinking that we please God by doing all these things: Well, we are wrong! He wants us to serve Him because we love Him, not out of duty.

So, if you need a break from serving to get closer to God, take that break...don't let the ministry bring you down in misery and distance from God. He wants us to be intimate with Him, to know His word (by reading the bible), and obey Him :)

One powerful truth I learned today is that to become a true friend of God, I have to make that choice myself. Do I really want it? Am I willing to sacrifice some things to become His friend?

So friends, esp for you long-time Christians: let's not lose our first love (the burning zeal and intimacy when we first know God)! Let's reflect on our lives-what have we done wrong that stretches the distance between God and ourselves? I encourage you to take one BIG step to pull ourselves back to God. Let's not lose sight on Him =)

GBU

"Some of these people [us] have missed the most important thing in life-- they [we] don't know God"