Friends

John 15 says, You are my friends if you do what I command.  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. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

If you’ve watched shows on television or at the theater about servants who serve their masters, you’ve seen the distinct separation between master and servant.  The servant is not to be privy to the master’s affairs.

In these verses, Jesus says the Master’s affairs are exactly what he wants to share with us – his servants.  And in learning the master’s business, we then are called friends, because our Master shares everything with us.

Our Master appointed us, called us, and sends us – to bear fruit – eternal fruit.

As we choose to obey our Master’s commands, he calls us his friend.  And friends share intimately as they walk together in life.

It’s in that intimate relationship that we learn our Master’s business and ways, so that when we pray, we already know his heart and wishes, and we receive just what we need.

Obey Him, learn his business, bear fruit, and ask Him for all things.  It is his good pleasure give you your desires, and to call you “friend.”