What A Friend

We have all had people come into our lives and become our friends. In some cases that person turned out not to be a friend. Started off wonderful and things were great for quite a while. You did things together. Went places, laughed together, shared some of your most inner feelings and it was good. That’s what friends do. The best part was you were finally able to be yourself. We felt so good.

Then we started to ask ourselves, is this the real me? Some of us have been caught up in that huge deception, finally asking the question of who the real me might be? We thought we knew who we were and then we changed. It started small but grew with each passing day. It was as if we were becoming what we thought the other person wanted us to be. For some reason, we have thought for generations, other people wouldn’t like the real me? Could anyone of us decide the perceived me was better than the real me?

 That is when things started to come unraveled and life got complicated. Some friendships disintegrated before our very eyes. We went our separate ways and tried to start another friendship. But now we were starting off, not as we really were but who we thought people would like us to be. The vicious cycle continued. Until we realized that the real me was awesome and amazing and . . . . And loved.

That is when we met Jesus. He and His father loved us for who we really were, no, for who we are. After all, didn’t He say that He created us?  That ‘us’ was perfect in every way. Then we knew the friend we wanted to have and we learned more about each other with each passing day. Then we knew the truth of the song, “What a friend we have in Jesus”.    

Something to think about.

Rob