Choosing Friends Who Sit at the Feet of Jesus

We are constantly surrounded by voices.

We are constantly being inundated with messages from the radio. Facebook. Any social media for that matter. From people around us. Billboards. Advertisers. Stores telling us what we need. Pinterest telling us what’s in style. Our faces are being smacked with what we should be doing, wearing, saying, and thinking about.

Are any thoughts our own anymore?

I am wondering who you spend your life with? Specifically your friends. Are they women or men who sit at the feet of Jesus everyday, inserting truth into your life? Or are they inserting “truth” from the world? Now don’t get me wrong, I love hearing about the latest deal from Aldi or the local thrift store. There is plenty of room for those things as well. But if our friendships consist of trying to constantly just better our lives for ourselves, and not better our lives for God, how valuable are those relationships?

When you look at the friendships and relationships you do have, do you feel “less than” them, after hanging out with them? Wishing you tangibly had what they had? Looked the way they do? Owned what they owned?

Instead of looking horizontally at what everyone else has, we need to remember that God has allotted blessings in different ways. Life is not a competition, but we are all striving towards the same goal, and that is to honor and glorify God with what he has given each of us and to honor him in our relationships too.

It’s easy to get entangled by the world’s standards, to pursue the things of this world, and to listen to the voices of this world. It’s easy to seek friendships that may make us feel better horizontally. But we should seek friendships and relationships that encourage a vertical relationship – one that draws us closer to God.

When you are driving home from hanging out with someone, do you feel that relationship is life-giving? That it’s drawing you closer to God? Or is it just a trivial and surface-only relationship? Do you have friends who sit at the feet of Jesus and encourage you to do so as well? There are so many voices to listen to and make sure you listen to the voices that draw you closer to God, instead of closer to the ways of this world.

Are YOU a friend who sits at the feet of Jesus?