For the past couple of days I've been staying at my friend's house, with some of our other friends too, and today I came back home. And it made me think that friendship groups are very strange things! A gelling (or sometimes mashing!) of several very different people - everyone strange in their own individual way (and some stranger than others!!!). And yet you all come together and everything just works! Everyone is yet so different, but enjoys that same thing that brought you all together as friends in the first place; being with each other. And it doesn't matter if you're doing something new and exciting (like paintballing), or just chatting, or chilling out, watching a film, playing games, or simply cooking dinner.
Because that's what relationships are. And that's what a relationship with God is too. It doesn't matter what we do, and we're so different that we could never even begin to understand him, and yet we both enjoy being with each other. So often, different groups of Christians, and even people of different religions and faiths, get so hung up on what we should do when we're with God and how we should bring ourselves before him - and yet it doesn't actually matter. We could be literally be doing anything because God is always with us. That's what happened at Christmas; God came to be with us, in everything we do. So let's just enjoy being with him; our dearest and closest friend.
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A bear
22/12/2015 22:49:29
An interesting point of view - I'd never considered how impossible friendship groups would appear to be on paper! Interested why you say why "it doest actually matter"?
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Rebekah Blyth (Moderator)
22/12/2015 23:50:12
As in "it doesn't actually matter" whether we kneel behind a pew to pray to God, or dance around and sing our loudest; it doesn't matter if we praise God for a literal 7-day creation not all that long ago, or if we praise him for simply the art of creating; it doesn't matter if we call our church leaders different things, or they wear different clothes, or they lead services in different ways. They're all ways of us being with God, so they're all part of being in relationship with him - they're all to be enjoyed. Just as "it doesn't actually matter" what I'm doing with my friends; I still enjoy it whether I'm just sitting working alongside them, or climbing trees and punting down the river! All things done WITH someone are part of that relationship with them and are thus beautiful - no matter what they are!
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Rebekah Blyth (Moderator)
22/12/2015 23:54:05
If that kind of makes sense! :-)
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