Podcast
Advice to Our Younger Selves
Girls Gone Bible
February 23, 2024 · 57 min
FriendshipIdentity in ChristWord of God / BibleObedience1 Samuel 18:1–41 Samuel 20:14–231 Samuel 19:1–2
Summary
Angela and Ari explore the biblical friendship of David and Jonathan (1 Samuel 18-20) as a model for deep, loyal, God-centered relationships characterized by vulnerability, mutual support, and covenant commitment. They then offer advice to their younger selves on prioritizing faith, identity in Christ, obedience to parents, purity, rejecting worldly values, and facing pain through Jesus rather than numbing it.
Highlights
When you make promises, bringing God into those promises will make you literally come into covenant with people, with friends. It's such a beautiful thing.
Everything the world sells you as liberating actually bonds you to evil, anxiety and depression.
You bring everything to the feet of the cross and you face everything that you're going through. You can't outrun your pain—you have to face it and give it to Jesus.