Many people feel uncomfortable and offended many times when they ask him or her if they have already accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of their life.
But know that this question is not a way to feel superior or better than anyone, but a demonstration of love and obedience to the Word of the Lord when the Lord Jesus Christ commands us to make disciples in all nations (Matthew 28: 18-20) .
In James 4.4, the Word of the Lord recalls: "Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity against God?" Therefore, anyone who befriends the world becomes an enemy of God. "This Word is ratified in I John 2.15 -17 where it is written about who loves the world and what is in it.
So that we can know if we are friends or enemies of God, if we have our Lord God as Lord of our lives or the god of this age (2 Corinthians 4: 4), we need first to know the difference between being "friend of the world" and " Friend of God. "
Friends of the World.
In Matthew 6.24, Jesus said: No one can serve two masters, because either he has to hate one and love the other or he will dedicate himself to one and despise the other. You can not serve God and the mammon. The Word reveals that there are two masters, referring first to the Mighty God and Father that everything created, and to the god mamón. This god induces his friends and followers to practice the works of the flesh (pleasure for worldly things) (Galatians 5.19-21).
It makes worldly pleasures and duties become priorities and leaves the things of God in the background. A confirmation of this is when some event that we want to participate in the world (football games, movies, novels, walks, etc) or a meeting with someone you think is very important comes into direct competition with some programming or commitment and pre-established long before with God and you end up changing the divine God to satisfy the pleasures of the world.
Who has gained more attention?
The programming of the world or of God? How many times do you stop during the day to converse with God? Think about the things of God? Have you cared more for whom, God's will or your will to satisfy your desires? Learn that the person who attends most is the one you are a friend of and the one who is your master.
Friends of God share the Fruit of the Spirit, which is constituted by love, faith, hope, charity, peace, joy, goodness, faithfulness, meekness and self-control. And those who belong to Christ live the fruit of the Spirit because they crucified the flesh with their passions and promiscuities
Friends of God: In John 4.4-6.
The Word greater than he who is in us, than he who is in the world; because of the world they are; therefore, they speak of the world, and the world hears them. But we are of God; and he who knows God hears us; He who is not of God does not hear us.
In this we know the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error. In John 15.13-18, Jesus reveals his love and who his true friends are: "... You will be my friends, if you do what I command you, and I will no longer call you servants, because the servant does not know what his Sir, but I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
My beloved brother, have you become aware of what it means to be a friend of Christ? What is it to have Him as Lord of your life? But for that bond of friendship and lordship to be consolidated, the Lord establishes principles, saying: You will be my friends, if you do what I command you.
Just as God gave a Paradise to man without him making any effort or practicing any work that justified deserving, so Jesus made every sacrifice to rescue and reconcile man with the Father. And by the sprinkling of his blood, He knocks on your door to become your friend, your Lord, if you hear his voice and open the door, you will adhere to Him. If you want, accept Him as Lord.