Friends

A genuine friendship is a Heavenly present. It blesses our hearts because God's love is in it.

Right away from the very first week, God seemed to know that the world would be too wild and wooly for us to make it on our own.

He looked at Adam's single self and announced: "It's not good for man to be alone." Then he went to work and fashioned a friend for him named Eve.

When Noah came along and the rain became a flood, God knew Noah would be going through some pretty rough waters. So, he sealed Noah up in the ark and brought his family along for the ride.

God gave Joshua to Moses as a companion for his journey through the wilderness. For forty years they walked and talked and checked their maps, until finally they found the Promised Land.

Daughter-in-law Ruth was God's gift to Naomi after the rest of her family had died. In young David's most desperate hour, the Lord found Jonathan to be exactly the kind of friend David needed to make it to safety,

When everyone and everything was ripped from Job's hands, God allowed the comments of Job's comrades to keep him company.

And even as his only son traveled dusty roads and sailed stormy seas, God flanked Jesus with faithful friends and followers.

The Father knew we couldn't make it on our own either. So he birthed us into families. But he doesn's stop there. Once we've been born again, he sets us us with a loving community that laughs with us and cries with us and prays us on to forever.

Because of the events yesterday I have been thinking a lot of how fortunate my family is with the great friends we have in our lives. I hope to never take them for granted and that they always know the we love them and cherish them for the people they are.