We humans invest a lot in cultivating the right relationships and growing friendships. If nothing else, today's church has mastered the language of relational interaction. Now if we church-goers only spent our time investing in the most important relationship of all. We pour time and money into family, friends, significant others, and sometimes even neighbors and coworkers. But quite frankly, on the relationship scale, I fear God ranks around the "coworker level" as measured by the time, effort, and money we put into our walk with him. Yet we claim Him as our Bridegroom, our best Friend.
We whose eyes have been opened to see the supreme worth of Christ ought to proudly confess Him before all. What newly engaged young woman doesn't chatter incessantly about her fiancé and their future life together? (And I speak from experience because lately many of my friends have golden bands around their ring-fingers.) And we are awaiting our marriage to the Lamb! I know its a long engagement, but should that in any way dull our passion for Christ or render Him too boring to talk about?
Yet so often, cowardly human that I am, I deny the only One who gives value to my life and makes me any different from others. Those who deny Christ before men because they don’t esteem Him enough to risk losing either the approval of the contemporaries or even their own lives (see Luke 14:26, 33) will find Jesus does not consider them worthy of His friendship. And His is the only relationship that will spare any human from hell.
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