Friendship

The child returns home after the first day in a new school in a new town and is asked, "Did you make any new friends today?" Girls night out with friends. Three smiling men wearing tuxedos flanking an anxiously awaiting friend in front of an altar. Special people that laugh with us, listen to us, and support us when the wind blows cold. People who know our deepest fears and anxieties and pray with us. Solid and steadfast, holding us accountable.

During the Christmas season we especially reach out to our friends and enjoy their conversation. So, how do we converse with our greatest friend, Jesus? I admit that my conversations mirror the man in this video.

Not asking Him what he is doing in his creation. Not learning where I can participate in his plan. Not being still and listening. Just talking about me, and my needs, and my wants.

If we treated our earthly friends like we treat God, would they still be our friends?

Thank God that despite ourselves God loves us so much that he voluntarily left his exalted position in heaven and joined his greatest creation, mankind, on earth. He taught us how to live. He then voluntarily gave up his life to give us what we could never accomplish on our own: a right standing before his Father. Thanks be to God!