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6/3/2020

Psalm 25:14 “The secret [friendship, RV] of the Lord is with them that fear Him.”

Friendship requires reciprocation. Friends listen to each other, sharing both joys and sorrows. If the reciprocation part is lacking, it may be a far different kind of relationship. I certainly have had some relationships over the years that were extremely lopsided. You know the kind, when one person carries an entire history, and the other only has a very surface knowledge. One person is all in, willingly jumping into the deep end with their head barely above water, while the other person has little investment and stays happily in the shallow end.  

So we must contemplate, how is our relationship with God? Do we only unburden ourselves to Him, or come equally to Him with our joys? Do we listen to Him and seek to learn more about His word, strengthening our relationship with him? Or are we only takers? Do we seek His council and will for our lives, or are we merely complainers? Do we truly appreciate His love for us? Is our relationship with God so deep that, as Chambers puts it, “We live so much in consciousness of God that we do not need to ask what His will is, because the thought of choosing any other will never occur to is”?