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Meet My Best Friend A long time ago I met this person and was quite enthralled by all this person had to offer me. It was a good feeling I had when I met this person and it was one of those meetings where you just thought to yourself, I really want what this person can offer me. So on some advice of my friends who had set up the introduction I decided to open my heart and let this person in. You see I had not been very good at trusting people due to a lot of hurts from the past but something was different about this person. Something inside me knew I could trust again. Well in the beginning our relationship was great. We did all the wonderful things new friends do when they meet. We spent a lot of time together. I told everyone I knew about this person and what it meant to have this person in my life. It was great. I was excited and every day looked forward to the joy I had when I was with this person. As some relationships go though the newness wore off. I started to have some problems in my life and although this person offered help I just didn't know how to give those problems to someone else. You see that would have meant trusting again and although I had decided to trust this person as a friend I wasn't quite ready to share my problems too. We moved to another state and strangely enough my new friend came with us. In fact my friend provided so much help along the way I don't know how we would have arrived safely without this person. Upon arrival I tried to stay as close as I could with my new friend but you know how life gets in the way. I started getting busier and busier and part of it was due to the confidence this new friend had instilled in me. I started doing things I never thought I could do, things I had been told my whole life were impossible for me now were becoming possible. It was strange, I didn't hang out as much with my new friend but somehow I knew this person was still with me. Everywhere I went it seemed this person went ahead of me and made the way smooth for me. So many things became easier in my life yet still I was too busy for a relationship with my new friend. After all I had a husband and children to raise and I was now going to school and working and of course trying to fill up my personal life with other friends. Somehow none of them seemed to take the place of this friend I had met years before. Yet I still went on my own way and every once in a while I would stop and take a few minutes to call on my friend especially when problems arose. My friend was always there for me especially during tough times yet I still had not learned the value of this friendship and continued on my own way. Suddenly in my life things began to happen that caused a lot of pain and hurt. I found myself no longer able to handle the problems that were coming at me and although I knew my friend was there for me the problems seemed to big to really let this person help me through them. I slipped into a major depression and wanted to take my life. It seemed as if everyone around me was part of the reason for the pain and I even found myself blaming this wonderful gracious friend for letting these things happen to me. I became angry and bitter and full of unforgiveness and was not willing to trust anyone anymore with anything. Still my friend remained close by even though I wouldn't listen anymore to what this person was saying. All I knew was what was happening to me and I was convinced that no one cared anymore including my friend. The next few years were very dark and troubled for me. Every day was a struggle to stay alive and deal with the pain. There were times in my darkest moments when I would hear my friend speak comforting words but I just ignored them. I was angry at the world and at myself and along this road came another who seemed to like me the way I was and continually encouraged me in taking my life and reminding me that no one really cared anymore. A battle started to rage between these two in my life. One stood for good only while the other only bought evil and more darkness. The fight was intense and I guess my gracious friend knew what I needed cause other people who had known me began to be a reflection of my new friends love in my life. They seemed to be just like this awesome friend. They wouldn't give up on me. They were always calling and checking on me and praying for me. They would send cards and letters of encouragement yet I still was not convinced that my life was worth anything at all. On the darker side there were those who deserted me and betrayed me and seemed to play right along with the one bringing evil into my life. I felt like I was in two different worlds at the same time. One was offering me help and hope and love and the other offering me discouragement, loneliness and suicide thoughts. Truly I didn't know which to choose even thought the choice may have seemed obvious but when you are in the middle of a battle being pulled both ways sometimes you don't always make the right move. One day, my friend, the one I had met years earlier who had been so good to me, led me to a place of safety. A wonderful place that had been set up for me to take time and really understand what was happening in my life and why the battle was raging for my life. It was one of my friends' children who was willing to sit and talk with me and confront those things that were hurting me so deeply that I would want to take my life. My friend's child seemed to be so much like my friend. He had a loving character with a soft voice reaching out in love to speak the truth to me. There was no judgments passed on me just this love that said I will help you because of who my parent is and I am willing to talk to this evil one in your life and let my parent be the friend you have always needed and wanted. I spend quite a few hours with my friend's child and when I left I knew something had changed. I knew I was not going to die and that pretty soon I would see my friend from the past and now understand that this friend was truly the closest friend I could ever have and could trust with my whole life and that is exactly what happened. Although as I said earlier my friend had never really left me I was not aware that this person was with me all of that time. It had been me who walked away from my friend. My friend's child told me all the things to do if I really wanted to have a two-way relationship with my friend that I had met years earlier. He explained to me how to let this person love me and be there for me and how to cast all my troubles to my friend and how to get to know my friend more intimately than ever before. It was the beginning of a new life for me and with the faithfulness and love and compassion of my friend who had never left me I was now able to start walking with this person and really find out what it is to have a friend that sticks closer than a brother. My life began to change. My heart began to get soft again and love began to flow. My friend took me places I never knew I would go and assured me that if I just stayed close in our relationship that I would be protected and cared for as never before. My friend opened my eyes to see again and to see the wonderful plans my friend had for me and was willing to share with me as we walked and talked together daily. Oh how my heart was filled with joy and peace and love. I began to feel special and precious to my friend and no matter how much I tried to do things to please my friend I found this person always blessing me more than I could ever imagine. My friend is still here with me today and His love is present in my life daily. He has taught me to trust and to love others. He has taught me to share Him with others that they too might know what an awesome Friend he is and what He is willing to do in their life if only they will let him. I would like very much for you to meet my friend. I can assure You He will never leave you nor forsake you. I promise You He will never lie to you or deceive you for it is not His nature to ever harm anyone. He is love in its fullness and He is the best friend you could ever want and also the Friend you will need to get into eternity. His name is Jesus Christ and He is the Son of the Living God. He came in the flesh to go to a cross to die for our sins. He came that we might have life. He rose from the dead that we might be justified in Him. His Word is truth and His mercy endures forever. He is faithful and true and will guide you and lead you through this life by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is willing to take your past and your old life and give you a new life in Him. He is the Friend that sticks closer than a brother. Would you like to meet Him? It isn't hard at all. Your part is to believe and receive His forgiveness and His love. He will do the rest as you learn to follow Him and He will keep you through good times and bad. I have many wonderful friends but not one of them was able to do what He has done in my heart and my life. Come to Him for He is waiting for you. It is not His will that any should perish and His gift is free. Won't you say the following prayer from your heart and turn it all over to Him and let Him be Lord of your life from this day forth. I promise you a journey through this lifetime that will be different from anything you have ever known. He is Almighty God, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End and He wants you to know how precious you are to Him. The Bible tells us in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him would not die but have everlasting life." This is how much He loved you and me. He stretched out His hands and died for you and now He sits at the right hand of God and will come again to take us to Him.
Dear Jesus,
John
10:10
John
15:13
John
14:6
Romans
3:23
Romans
6:23
Romans
9-10
If you have any other questions or if you would like to share openly that you have received His forgiveness and love than please contact me and we will get back in touch with you. We are here to help you and point you toward Your Savior and Our Savior, Jesus Christ. May the Lord bless you and keep you from this day forth.
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