In my reading today in Philippians 2:
I see that we are to be a friend to others just as Jesus was and is a friend to us.
As a matter of fact we are to be deep, close, friends. A Friend that will hold each other up before God and accountable to each other. We are to put ourselves aside and place others first.
Because of Jesus OBEDIENCE, God honored Him and He will do the same for you and I!
Check it out: Philippians Chapter 2
1–4 2 If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
5–8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.
9–11 Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father.
Here is your challenge:
You know on your Myspace account where you have your Top Friends List. I challenge you to go and make the ones on the bottom of that list your Top Friends. That should make those people feel great. But not only that I challenge you to make your Top Ten list a list of Lost Youth, Commit to pray for that group until they are saved and if you like share those names and I will help you pray.
Be like Jesus, Be an Imagebearer
Ronnie