READ: JOHN
15:12-19
Relationships
add lots of values to life. Good friends lighten one’s burdens. But the truth
is that good friends are hard to find. Enemies appearing as friends have
disappointed a lot of people. But the good news is that God offers us the type
of friendship that cannot be found in the world. God loves the world. He loves
you too. If God loves the world, that means He loves my country, Nigeria. It
means that God loves my family and loves me. If the world were to shrink down
to only one person, and that one person is you or me, “God so loved the world”
would become God so loved you or me, so much that He gave His only begotten
Son, that if you or I will believe in Him, we will not perish but have
everlasting life. I am so important to Jesus to have died for me. There is only
one friend in the whole world. Every other fellow is either a brother, a sister
or an absolute enemy. The best-recorded friendship in the Bible was the
friendship Jonathan and David. Jonathan loved David like his own soul and did
all we have already learnt that love does. Love gives, so Jonathan gave David
his robe, his belt and jack, and his sword. However, if you study this
friendship closely, you will find out that it was rather imperfect. There was
something which Jonathan could have given David which he did not give him. He
could have given him his shoes. In Ruth 4:7, the Bible tells us why shoes were
important. In those days, an agreement was incomplete until the shoes were
given in addition. Because Jonathan did not give his shoes, it meant that he
could withdraw all that he gave David in future. Jonathan did not give David
his shoes. He was simply saying that even though they were friends, David must
know his status and remember that he was a servant. Have you experienced true
friendship? Make Jesus your friend today and you will experience uncommon
fulfilment.
MEMORIZE:
JOHN 3:16 –For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
