♪ What A Friend We Have In Jesus ♫

We have lots of friends: old friends, new friends, feels-like-I've-known-ya-forever friends, and the list goes on.

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."  

-Sicilian Proverb

Friends meet in many places, too. Online, in church, at works, volunteering, on trains and buses, and sometimes in an airplane thousands of feet off the ground.


Mostly, a friendship is formed in finding a common interest, love, belief, or habit.

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one." 

-C.S.Lewis

As God's most social creature, humans have a great need for friendships. It is a way for us to have someone with whom to express love. Someone with whom we can have a love relationship.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

 ~Henry David Thoreau

This is our nature. But, why? Because, being made in God's image we share His nature. God is love, and love must be expressed in word and deed. God made you just in order to love you; that was man's original purpose! knowing this about God, though helps us understand, it will never allow us to comprehend the Love of God.

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."

-I John 4:7,8

 Christmas is the time when the Father showed His love by giving Christ to us... and showed He loved  us when he suffered the most shameful, cruel death in the history of the world.

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

-Romans 5:8

Like the love He had for Moses, now we have through the love offering of Christ.

 "And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend..."

-Exodus 33:11

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face..."

-I Corinthians 13:12

Let us remember the love and friendship that God has for us; not just during the Christmas Season, but the whole year through!