The idea is to progress through each of these steps. We should see God as…
- A father - someone that we look up to, learn from, and ask for forgiveness from while we grow in our faith
- A master - at a certain point, you begin to ask “why” and have to settle with the fact that it’s not about you. We are a slave to salvation, not sin.
- A friend - Jesus laid down his life for us; we should be a friend that is willing to lay down our lives for him. The goal here is to grow to the point that your mind and Jesus’s are aligned; to get to the point that you are in constant relationship.
- A groom - At this point, we rule and reign with God in the New heaven and new earth
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