"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends if you whatever I command you." (John 15:13-14)
Not every one has friends and some have more than others. Some call 350 people on face-book their friends while others shy away from people and social networks. Personally I think friendship is a gift which I am blessed to have. I don't have 350 friends on face book, and I don't go out to social gatherings and parties every weekend, but I am blessed to say that I have a few close friends and other people, besides those in my family, who I can talk to about things that are on my mind and to just share things with.
The gift of friendship that I'm talking about is not the 'friendship' in that, 'hey you...I talk to you a bit...and you talk to me so we must be friends'. The friendship I call a gift is that which you can share with someone where you can talk about things that really matter, deeper things than just the weather and who's with who at the moment. I'm a person who needs to be able to talk to someone about the things that are on my mind, and yet I cannot just talk to anyone about them. I don't trust people easily, so to some people this may seem like I don't have many friends. But I have friends that matter, not tons of face-book friends, but friends who I can be with for 2 or more hours and talk and talk and not get sick of each other; friends who know me in a way that not many others do.
And I also have anther friend; I have a friend in Jesus. I don't mean this in an irreverent way, but He is someone I can talk to, He is always there, and I know what He will always hear whatever I have to say. Its His friendship that I treasure the most.
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