Morning Friend

You know that kid you used to hang out with? The one that you always wanted to be with? Were they not the best of times? Over the years these friends came into your life and you would do almost anything to be hanging with them all the time. Get up early and meet them on the walk to school.  Sit either in front of them or behind them at class. Have lunch together and have amazing summertime adventures together.

The best part was they would listen to you just like you listened to them. Your deepest secret, you could trust them with it. Even your fears, trouble, likes and dislikes were never out of bounds. You trusted them with your very life. And they did the same to you.

Many of us would call them our best friend. Life was wonderful back them. Go everywhere together. Some people even said we were stuck together at the hip. After a few years, life got in the way, our parents moved and it just wasn’t the same any more. That’s about the time someone else came along. Someone who didn’t fill the other person’s shoes but they did fill the emptiness. Over time they became that best friend. Some of us were lucky when that person was our brother or sister.

As wonderful as these relationships were and are, there is one better. That best ever friend is Jesus. Remember singing in Sunday School; “What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and grief to bear...” It’s true. Paul Simon just started writing one day. He wrote a gospel song that talk about Jesus, that special best of friends: Elvis also sang it;  

“When you're weary, feeling small,

When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all;

I'm on your side. When times get rough

And friends just can't be found,

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down.”

And just so you know, Jesus and His Father never move away.

Something to think about

Rob