Tender Hearted Daughter of God

How important is it to be a friend?

Recently, my hubby and I were discussing how it sometimes seems our friends don’t have time for us. We realize that we live during a busy, rush-rush era. People have so many irons in the fire, as they say, that they feel pulled in many directions at once. But we also know how important relationships with others are to us as human beings. Having friends and being a friend is necessary to our well-being. So, if our friends don’t have time to reach out to us, then it’s up to us to do the reaching out.

Were we created as relational beings?

God not only created us as relational beings, but He also gave us instructions in the Decalogue on how to treat each other (see Exodus 20:12-17, https://bible.com/bible/114/exo.20.12-17.NKJV).

Yes, we are to do right by each other, but God also directs us to love and serve one another. Galatians 5:13-14: “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (https://bible.com/bible/114/gal.5.13-14.NKJV).

What kind of friend does God want us to be?

Proverbs 17:17a: “A friend loves at all times….” (https://bible.com/bible/114/pro.17.17.NKJV).

Proverbs 27:6 “Faithful are the wounds of a friend….” (https://bible.com/bible/114/pro.27.6.NKJV).

John 15:13: “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (https://bible.com/bible/114/jhn.15.13.NKJV).

John 13:34: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another” (https://bible.com/bible/114/jhn.13.34.NKJV).

Therefore, we will continue to be the ones who call, text, or email our friends and to ask them to get together, if that’s what it takes to keep their friendship.

Blessings on your friendships!