You've Got A Friend

Published: Dec. 27, 2022, 8 a.m.

We just celebrated our best friend’s birthday in a grand way.  Celebrations are great, but honoring one reveals the content of a sincere heart.  And the best way to honor Jesus is to serve others as he did, to be as concerned for others as he was, and to keep his legacy of friendship alive and thriving

John 15:11-15 "I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you". 

I want to say to those who this season does not bring joy, who feel lost, who can’t shake the grieving of a loved one, and who feel all alone,  God is with you.  I know those words just seem like just something nice to say, but it is the truth, he has promised to never leave or forsake you.

Set aside some time and begin to talk to him, confide in him, and share your innermost thoughts with him.  

Yes, he is  God who knows everything already, but he is also not a God who forces Himself or intrudes, when we open up to him we are inviting him into a relationship with us. Just try it for yourself, there is absolutely no risk at hand.  You can always go back to not talking to God, but if you never start you will never know all that is available to you.

Each and every one of our lives have an expiration date. Until that date, you have a choice to thrive or to sit idle and mold like aged cheese, where people have to cut away the mold of grief, anger, disappointment, and so on to even be able to be in your company.  

Life throws curve balls, we lose loved ones, and sometimes we just can’t seem to make sense of anything.  

\Just know that if woke up this morning, it is for no other reason than God is not through with you yet, he has some things to show you, and he has some things he has purposed for your life that only you can do. And you are not alone, you have a friend in Jesus and if you trust him, he will put some physical friends and godly brothers and sisters in your life.  

You have a friend.

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