Someone asked me yesterday! My reply was, “As close as possible!!!” Let me tell ya, the closer you get to God, the SWEETER life gets! For example, after only a few hours on Saturday with a friend, I left her house a better wife, a better mother, and a better person. We have known each other for TEN YEARS now, and she has had such a positive influence on me. She has been my shining example of an excellent person who has taught me such values of kindness, loyalty, faithfulness, leaving the past in the past, staying calm, and I can go on and on!
But guess who was behind the scenes nudging me to get close to her: GOD! I had recently relocated with the kids to Nigeria to be with hubby, who had come ahead of us. After saying to hm so many times that I didn’t want any friends, that he and the kids were enough, I felt God in my spirit nudging me to call her one day to ask if she wanted to do the BIGGEST LOSER diet competition with me. I remember walking up and down in my room before making that call. But I felt God saying, ‘CALL HER!!!’ And I’m thanking Him because that was one of the best telephone calls I’ve ever made. God, I’m incredibly grateful!
We’ve travelled all over the world together, including Disney World, where I was such a nerd telling her I wish we could be friends forever. I still mean it! It’s a friendship orchestrated by God Himself! Every moment with her has been sacred. A conversation recently, she encouraged me to give my husband the benefit of the doubt. I didn’t have to believe everything the crazy lady in my head is telling me. Sometimes I can also pretend I don’t see what I see or hear what I hear. LOVE SETS FREE. Meaning I can leave my hubby to live his life and allow God to do what He wants with him, without me nagging him to be who I want him to be. To just love hubs as he is, for both his strengths and weaknesses. To just show up in every moment as my BEST self for God’s glory. This goes for ALL our significant relationships, by the way!
DON’T MISS OUT ON THE BEST RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, THOUGH! Say this prayer with me: ‘God, I want an even closer walk with You! Amen.’ As you draw close to Him, I promise, you will start feeling exactly what He would have you to do on a moment by moment basis! Like Him saying to me in my spirit that day, ‘CALL HERE!!!’ God is quite talkative! He knows the people we need in our lives AND the people we need out! Wink! Wink!
