Our Friend Is Jesus!
"No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know
what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for
all
things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you."
John 15: 15
In early social media lingo, to “friend” someone was to
establish
a digital connection with them. Some people had thousands
of
“friends,” many of whom they might have barely
known.
That practice watered down
the biblical idea of a friend.
Friend was a covenant term; Abraham was called the friend of
God
(2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8). In light of the New Covenant,
Jesus
called His disciples His friends. What does that mean? It means
what
David and Jonathan exemplified in their friendship: Whatever
you
need me to do, I will do it (1 Samuel
20:4).
Jesus said the same thing to His friends:
“You will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for
you”
(John 15:7). True friends are closer than brothers
(Proverbs
18:24), and no friend is
closer or more loyal than Jesus.
Let your friendship with Jesus be closer than
all
others. Be bound to Him in love and faith
through
His New Covenant (Matthew 26:
28).
"What a friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear!"
Joseph Scriven
