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IBS 40 - Amos 3:3

Amos 3:3
“Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?”

You can’t force two people to like each other and be friends. It’s a mutual decision between the two people. We all go our whole lives making this decision with people we like, and people we don’t like, we choose to stay clear of them. Friendships, people who walk together, have been decided upon by the two people in the group. It’s not everyone else telling them to be friends, it’s an agreement. 
My best friend, Trista, and I met when we were in high school. We become friends because we both agreed. The friendship formed very quickly and thrived. No one told us we had to be friends, we chose to be friends. And because we chose to be friends, we were inseparable for four years until we graduated, forcing us to take different paths. But our friendship was unique, godly, and strong. 
I’ve been forced to be friends with people before that don’t care to be my friend either, and it’s awkward, uncomfortable, and very unnatural. That friendship doesn’t thrive, it doesn’t even survive. It’s hopeless, depressing, ending quickly. If the other person wants to be your friend, but you don’t want to be theirs, that ends eventually as well. Those times are just uncomfortable for one person, but nonetheless it doesn’t thrive either. It has to be two people wanting the relationship. 
When two people agree to walk together in a godly manner, there is nothing they can’t accomplish. They become unison. You agree. Trista and I would be able to have conversations with just our eyes sitting across the room from each other. We knew what the other person was thinking most of the time. We agreed on almost everything. We both wanted the friendship, making us work well together and making the friendship wonderful. We’d get excited to hang out with each other. But with someone you don’t get along with you, you dread hanging out with them. You don’t walk in unison. You don’t agree. 


Application: I’ll write AMOS 3:3 on my arm as a reminder to walk together in unison with my classmates and to pray that we’ll agree. 

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