Our world grows darker. Yet the true Light is shining even now. Jesus has called us friends. In John 15:14 He says “you are my friends if you do what I command you.” This friendship with Jesus opens the door (I Am The DOOR) to a reconnection with our Creator Father who gives His Spirit without limit (John 3). Such connectivity is the greatest gift that can be given to any man or woman.
As my understanding and insight into my own story solidified (Curious Journey) and I began to sink my roots in Jesus’ Kingdom (Kingdom book), my connectivity included a rediscovery of my path to being with God. The Father of the so-called “old” testament was powerful, just, loving, yet could be very severe in His judgement (we deserve it, by the way). Jesus did not come to judge the world for we had already fallen short by our own choices (John 12:47). He came this first time to save the world and to restore our connective friendship with God (Genesis 3:8).
To once again become a friend of God required only one thing from any human. “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God.” (James 2:23) This is the story of the book Mentored by God. How do we find our way in a darkening world? We follow Jesus. What was Jesus’ one focus when He appeared this first time? To reveal the Father to us. So the One who cannot tolerate even a speck of sin reaches out to lost us through the blood-covering of His Son. Wow.
“God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.” (Hebrews 1:1-4)
He is everything. We hope you enjoy the conversations in the book.
Dave and Burnadette
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