Friends Of God!
"So the Lord spoke to Moses face to
face, as a man speaks to his friend."
Exodus 33: 11
Abraham was the only person in the Old Testament called
the friend of God (Isaiah 41:8). Some suggest that “friend”
is a covenant term since it was Abraham with whom God
established a covenant that became
a blessing for
Abraham’s physical and spiritual descendants.
David and Jonathan became best of covenant
friends (1 Samuel 18:1-4; 20:1-42), mirroring
words of Proverbs 18:24: “There is a friend
who sticks closer than a brother.”
Moses was another covenant partner with God, a man
with whom God spoke “as a man speaks to his friend.”
The covenant intimacy of all these friends—God and
Abraham, God and Moses, David and Jonathan—was
greatly expanded by Christ when He told His disciples
that they were no longer servants but were His friends
(John 15:13-15).
This friendship is also based on a covenant of
promise, the new covenant established on His
blood “shed for many” (Mark 14:24).
If you have faith in Christ, you are among the
“many” who are counted as the friends of God.
Don’t fail to enjoy that friendship
today!
"How good is the God we adore,
our faithful, unchangeable Friend!"
Joseph
Hart
