You said... you just wanted to know me
really just friends
You said you wanted to know me but I had this feeling deep down, I felt you were lying I’ve heard this story before first, just friends then, before you blink clarity evaporates in thin air so I said: no, I’m good cause I’ve been down that road before we talk a lot about how easy it is for men and women not to be friends while sharing those deep stories our girl friends find in the corners of our couch cushions we forget the part we had to play in the storyline to make this happen maybe "just a friend" is our way of staying safe a title that lets us keep God at arm’s length better to build a wall than watch the cycle repeat again but can we shrink Him to fit into that box? and maybe that’s why we lie to ourselves that we picture God as just a friend male, distant, routine when in reality both genders intertwine in his archetypal presence the one who birthed the galaxies in six days set the Milky Way to guard their way we raise our hands for others to see but do we raise our lives on the altar? we think prayer is bound to a building that one hour and twenty minutes a week is enough with Him but in truth He never asked to be another Sunday friend not the one who loses their shine once someone new enters our periphery not the one we met yesterday and now treat like an old memory we repeat beautiful words out loud settle like puddles in potholes in the end, He'll say: sure you did this for me but in your own strength sure you sang in my name but I never knew you even now He doesn't want to be boxed in a part of our lives just a friend He says I want to know you inside out.
Heart Call
High school will teach you a lot about navigating relationships. But projecting those same rules onto a God who wants to really know you can be dangerous.
Where in your life have been keeping God at arm's length?
What can you do differently starting today
to let Him be ‘more than just a friend’?