John 15: 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
Friends. Best friends. Jesus chose me to be His friend. He has made the Father's love known to me through His death on the cross and His residence in my life. And He is teaching me more of what that love looks like every day. In this love, I have found peace, joy, contentment, and freedom. I have moments of comparing what I have to what others have. I have moments where I want more. I have moments where I wonder what God is doing with my life, what are His purposes for me? But at the end of the day, I come back to His love and His Word and I remember that He has already given me abundant life in Him (and He has also blessed me in my natural life). And while those moments may come back to me on and off, it gets easier every day I live my life with Jesus, to be thankful for what I have rather than wanting what I do not.
In those times of thanks, which come more and more frequently with practice (thank you Ann Voskamp and "One Thousand Gifts"), I feel and know that I am connected to the greatest gift ever given. Life. This makes me determined to live the life I have to the fullest. To give grace lavishly. To serve humbly and to serve many. To be the detail that the Lord uses to show Himself in someone else's life.
Life is hard. And we have a lot of questions. But we have (or can have) a friend in Jesus. I don't even know what the rest of today will hold. But I know I have Jesus through it and His love will sustain me. I have never been more thankful for anything that His calling of me and being lead to Him. I find joy in that at this moment.
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