Acquaintance or a Friend?

 

 

by Valerie Gervais

 

We have got a wide circle of acquaintance and friends. We know people by name but not by the personality. And obviously speaking, we won’t cover the detailed in-betweens of these two as we’ll surely cover the entire page once we discuss all the differences. Cumulatively speaking, an acquaintance is a person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend (sidenote: thanks to Mr. Google). You feel COMFORTABLE around with an ACQUAINTANCE while you feel SAFE around with the people whom you call “FRIENDS”. Sometimes the people around us that we call friends are just acquaintances.

But hey, by the way, is God an acquaintance or a friend to you? Who is God to you?

If you would put one word to describe what is God to you personally, people would define it differently; God is love, faithful, God is a father, a saviour, a provider, the deliverer, a friend, healer, the creator, God is the Messiah, redeemer, conqueror… These answers depend on what you have experienced it on your own, right? You’ve proudly said that God is a provider when you have experienced God providing for you. God is a healer because you have experienced God healed you. Manifested by his character, God revealed himself in this world as a healer. These attributes of our Lord God, His character, His nature, are His manifested characteristics through His word.

He is also faithful, loving, merciful, and gracious. These are the attributes of God the we love. How about the attributes of God that we don’t like because we don’t understand? Just God…Holy God…

 

 

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