From Master To Husband, Servant To Friend

I will lead her and speak tenderly to her heart, I will give her vineyards back to her and make the valley of Achor (Trouble) into a gateway of hope. In that day you will call Me my husband and no longer call Me my master.

Hosea 2:15-16

You are My friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants anymore because a servant does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

John 15:14-15

Probably the most beautiful of The Savior's attributes is His desire to be personal with His people. He wept over Jerusalem because of their refusal to come to Him for salvation, comfort and rest in His care. He longed to gather them, "As a Hen gathers her chicks under her wings". That is a beautiful picture. I know that feeling well and love saying it, boasting and bragging on My Father. He also got very angry when His disciples mistakenly thought it would please Him to shoo the kids away who wanted Him to bless them...The cool part is He really wanted to bless them and not as a group either, one by one He embraced them and put His hands on them as He blessed them. This is beauty as He sees it ,from master to husband and from servant to friend. How could I ask for more.

Isaiah 42:6-8, Matthew 11:28-30

What distinguished him was a unique insight into the human heart and the mercy of God and this had not come through his learning, although that played an important part, but through his personal experience. He was not interested in theology but in God as a living person.

Amazing Grace. The story of John Newton Page 109