Calvary Baptist Church
Past Devotionals
CBC Devotional for Week of 5/31/2026
What a Friend...
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. John 15:15 (NKJV)
Since this is the beginning of a new thing, I think it best to start it with Jesus. He is really the only reason any of this is happening. There is no Christianity without Christ and no devotional unless there is someone worth being devoted to. In a pluralistic and diversified world staking it all on Jesus runs against the current. And honestly it runs against our nature as human beings.
If you are reading this most likely you are already following Jesus. Maybe presumptuous, but likely. So let’s start there. The call of Jesus to you is to be His disciple. When Jesus lived on earth He had His group of followers, the disciples. In John 15, specifically verse 15, Jesus tells them that He calls them friends instead of servants. Jesus’s friends, the ones He loves based on experience; He chose them. Jesus doesn’t love the idea of them or some airbrushed AI altered them; He loved them precisely as they are shown in the gospels. And He wants them to know Him. He lived with them for three years, and when He was asked to show them the Father He replies by saying, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father”. There is something inherently precious about this. God-in-flesh desired to really know His followers and not merely command them, even though He is the actual King of the Universe. And He wanted His followers to know Him.
I think we need to carry this forward in life today. He already knows us—but in a relational sense will we allow ourselves to be known by Him? Will we self-disclose, not because He needs us to but because we choose to? He came to earth, and He disclosed Himself to us. He chose to. Will we choose to know Him?
Friends choose each other. He chose to call His followers His friends. Will I be His friend?