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Developing Your Friendship

with God

He offers his friendship to the godly.

Proverbs 3:32 (NLT)

Draw close to God, and God

will draw close to you.

Ja mes 4:8 (NLT)

You are as close to God as you choose to be.
Like any friendship, you must work at developing your
friendship with God. It won’t happen by accident. It takes desire,
time, and energy. If you want a deeper, more intimate connection
with God you must learn to honestly share your feelings with
him, trust him when he asks you to do something, learn to care
about what he cares about, and desire his friendship more than
anything else.
I must choose to be honest with God.The first building
block of a deeper friendship with God is complete honesty—
about your faults and your feelings. God doesn’t expect you to
be perfect, but he does insist on complete honesty. None of
God’s friends in the Bible were perfect. If perfection was a
requirement for friendship with God, we would never be able to

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