We are friends of Jesus Christ

Although we are God's servants, God does not treat us as slaves. I believe that is what was also behind the words of Jesus Christ when He made the parable of the sievro useless. He was telling us: God loves you, God has blessed you, God has adopted you as sons, but remember that ultimately you are useless servants.

But we cannot lose sight of that great and luminous truth that we are children of God, we are friends of Jesus Christ. The Lord does not treat us like slaves. We do not have to come before the Throne of Grace with fear and begging for a blessing from God but the Bible invites us to enter confidently and come before the Throne of Grace of God, and come with boldness, expect great things from us. of the Lord, remember that we are loved and preferred children, that the Lord wants, as He did with the prodigal son, to give us everything that is in His House and to sit at His table so that we can enjoy all the blessings of the Kingdom of God.

And there is not a passage that illustrates that to us more than John chapter 15 verses 14 and 15 where we see that the Lord tells us: "You are my friends." In verse 15 he says: "I will no longer call you servants, because the servant" in other words: I will no longer call you slaves "because the servant does not know what his master is doing."

In other words, let's look at this from the perspective of the parable of the Lord Jesus Christ. That slave that He mentions in the parable certainly does not deserve anything from his master: he does not deserve explanations nor does he need information from the master but he is simply told what he has to do and he executes the will of his master. "I will no longer call you slaves because the slave does not know what his master does, but I have called you friends, because all the things that I heard from my Father I have made known to you."

In other words, we see clearly here that the Lord's preferential posture in treating us is a posture of friendship, it is a paternal posture, it is a posture of being adopted children from the Lord. And as servants of the Lord we have to maintain that double identity. On the one hand we see our life as a life surrendered, surrendered to the Lord, and on the other hand we see ourselves as children, as chosen friends who have every right to expect great things from our Heavenly Father. That means we have to live trusting lives, pleasant lives, lives that expect that abundance that God has promised for all those who serve Him with humility and simplicity of heart.

As Christians, as children of God we have every right to expect great blessings in our Christian walk, although we will always have there in a part of our subconscious the reminder that ultimately, we are the Lord's servants, and that we are at His disposal for anyone. whatever He wants to do with us.

In our next meditation we will conclude by thinking a little more about passages that remind us a little more about that positive identity that we have in Christ Jesus. May the Lord bless you and until our next meditation.