True Fellowship

The Lord really pressed on me this month that true fellowship is not about who you went to lunch with or how many people you have on your "Friends" list... The foundation of true fellowship is built on those intimate moments you take time to have with another person whose eyes are on the Lord... 

Paul speaks of fellowship in  1John 1:6-7 "If we say we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin." 

Darkness represents spiritual or moral dimness or obscurity.. The light, in contrast to darkness, symbolizes that which the Lord is calling us to desire... Fellowship is defined as walking with, abiding in, agreeing with something; with the impossibility of "communion" between light and darkness.

So if we have fellowship with someone based on a relationship not within the Lord's will, we are saying that we abide in and agree with that which is outside of the Lord's will. In doing this we are no longer in fellowship with the Lord since light and dark cannot mix.  There are so many ways in which a relationship or friendship can be outside of the Lord's will, but today the Lord has stressed to me the importance of truly loving one another and how not truly loving one another is just as much outside of the Lord's will as hanging out in a bar getting drunk.   

1 John 4:7-8  "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love." 

Fellowship that is based on guilt or a need to feel loved is not true fellowship.  Fellowship that comes with a negative attitude or the desire to gain something for ourselves is not true fellowship. True fellowship isn't something we can buy or create... when we truly give our heart over to the Lord the Holy Spirit comes and changes it and softens it to desire His will above all else. His love flows through us to others and that is when we develop relationships in true fellowship. In this fellowship we are abiding in the Lord and the world fades away.

The Lord is awesome... He is ever so abundant and overflowing with mercy and blessings...