We all Need Friends

Verses:  Ecclesiastes 4:9-16

My thoughts about the verses:

We all need Friends.  A true friend will lift you up when your world is turned upside down.  A true friend is there in the bad times helping you through it.  A true friend celebrates with you when you are having good moments in your life.  A true friend is one that is there when all others fade away.

I can tell you right now that consider me very lucky.  I have had several friends that I call friends for life.   We might not see each other or talk daily but they are there for me and I am there for them.  Our relationship is as strong as in blood relationship.  In fact, for me some of my friends are closer than people that call me family.  They were there when I came out of the closet.  They have been there when I got sick.  They keep me going when I just want to give up. 

In fact, it was one of my friends, my second brother that led me to doing this blog.  He taught me that I am not dead.  I can’t do what I use to do.  There are days that all I can do is sleep.  There are days that I can’t eat.  I can never drive.  Yet, he hasn’t let me give up and die.  He makes sure that I still have a life.  I don’t know what I would do without him.

Yet, at the same time I am his second sister.  I would do anything for him.  I worry about him and pray often.  I am there when he is having great days.  I am also there when he hurts and needs a kind word.  We have learned that together we are better than one.

He is not the only friend I have.  The closet friend that I have is not a person that I can reach out to and talk to.  It isn’t a friend that I can get on the phone or Facebook and talk to day and night.  My closest friend lives within my heart and is always lifting me up.  He carries the majority of my burden.  My cross that I carry will never be larger than the cross that he carried. 

The best thing of about my friend is that anyone can claim him as their best friend.  You guessed it my best friend is Jesus.  Imagine laying down your life for your friend.  We all hope that we would do it.  Yet, Jesus did it without reservation.  He carried the cross as far as his body would allow.  He endured the nails that pierced his hands and feet.  He endured the pain of hanging from a cross and feeling his arms being pulled carrying all his weight. 

He then asks God to forgive them because they do not know what they do.  I think that we are included in the them that he asked forgiveness for.  Jesus died so that we may have eternal life.  No matter how many friends that you have on this Earth you will never have a closer friend than Jesus.  Jesus Never Walks Away From Us.  When we are at our lowest moments Jesus is helping us.  When we’re in the best situations of our life Jesus is celebrating.  We never have to worry about being alone as long as we have Jesus as our friend.

You may be asking how I make Jesus to be my friend.  I think that we learn this from the second part of these verses.  We have to ask Jesus to come into your life.  You can’t think that you can do it all by yourself.  You have to accept that you need help.  You can’t walk through the life pompous thinking that you don’t need anyone in your life.  Yet, you need to understand that you need God.  You can’t go through life without Jesus in your life.  It doesn’t matter how many other friends you have.  It doesn’t matter how much money you have or how much power you have.  Without Jesus you have nothing.  The things that you have in this world will eventually disappear.  You have to ask Jesus in your life.  Without Jesus you have to carry all of your burdens yourself.  You also are not blessed with the gift of everlasting life.  That gift is something that we all need. 

Prayer:

Dear Jesus we bless you for being the ultimate friend.  We thank you for your sacrifice so that we may have eternal life.  We offer our life up to you.  Help us become the people that you need us to be.  Help dear Savior ask you into our life.  In the name of the Savior we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Have you asked Jesus into your life?  Are you walking with the best friend anyone can ever have?  Do you need to ask Jesus into your life today?