THE POWER AND PURPOSE OF GODLY FRIENDSHIP (MARK 2:1-12)

Jackie Robinson was the first black person to play major league baseball. Breaking baseball’s color barrier, he faced jeering crowds in every stadium. Players would stomp on his feet and kick him. While playing one day in his home stadium in Brooklyn, he made an error. The fans began to ridicule him. He stood at second base, humiliated, while the fans jeered. Then, shortstop Pee Wee Reese came over and stood next to him. He put his arm around Jackie Robinson and faced the crowd. The fans grew quiet. Robinson later said that arm around his shoulder saved his career. We are sometimes like Jackie Robinson, full of shame and sometimes, like Jackie, our shame is from nothing we’ve done. Sometimes our shame is from our own sin and guilt. Like Pee Wee Reese, Jesus comes and slips his arm around us, and bears our shame for us and He wants us to the same for others.

 

God places people in our lives not by accidents but on purpose; he has a reason. Our journey in God is not complete until we have walked it in the right company of the people of God. Everyone has the story of the greatest influence in their lives; the stories are often more about people than about events or things; your teacher, a friend, your parents, your pastor, sometimes strangers that show up at a season in our lives and leave on us an indelible mark. Our relationships can be a curse or a blessing. The bible says “he sets the lonely in families; God made the family so that we would not suffer alone”. He did it on purpose. Many a times we lose out on the plan of God because we fail to appreciate the gift of God specially packaged for us and sometimes unattractive wrapper of human relationships. The messes in many human relationships prevent us from seeing the message in these relationships and we often throw the baby away with the bath water.

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