“Please, friends I need who can be my best friend…I
need a very good one.”
Reading this
message above from someone in his Facebook timeline, I felt the pain of this
person. I perceived his loneliness, the desperation for someone who could fill
in the vacuum in his heart. I felt he needed a friend, a companion, a helpmeet
and a partner.
You see, for just
this few years I have spent on earth I have come to learn a lot of things. Let
me show you but a few.
I see this person
just like most of us. Every one of us might have come to this point in our
lives where we desire a true friend. One who speaks the language of our hearts,
one who understands our feelings and thoughts and one who is so close to us.
Many of us have
come to this point whereby even amidst ‘friends’ we still desire a true friend.
We live in a time
where we have the greatest opportunity to socialize with the advent of the
internet and social media and even the opportunity to travel around the world.
We have a lot of people around us but we still feel lonely. What an irony!
I remember people
usually say “the social media has made people around us far, and faraway people
so close to us.” This is most times true. Through social media, we have the
opportunity to communicate and socialize with people and even make friends.
People even from faraway countries. And many times, some of these people we
meet on social media we don’t have the opportunity to meet them physically
because of the distance but along the line we just feel connected with them in
friendship and we just wish they were close to us and that leaves us in a
feeling of despair and gets us more lonely again.
With the way things
are going, it is hard to find true friends and this makes it even more
difficult to come out of this lonely feeling. People can no longer be trusted.
People are selfish, only seeking for their own ‘self-good’ and not
‘common-good.’ People no longer seek the interest of others but for themselves.
According to the Nigerian parlance, “everyone just wants to chop and go.” All
these and many more make finding a true friend more difficult.
It keeps you in
that realm of despair and loneliness. Even when you have a great number of
people around you, you still cannot talk or open up to them because you don’t
find friendship in them.
But over the years
I have come to realize that there is a friend like no other. A friend who is
loving, caring and true. A friend who loves me so much that I don’t even know.
A friend who gave up his life for me. A friend so close to me than I realize. A
friend that I can trust. He is Jesus.
Ever since I met
Jesus I don’t worry about sharing my thoughts anymore because he understands
them. I don’t worry about my feelings again because he understands them. He has
filled up the vacuum in my heart. He has become my best friend that this boy on
Facebook is looking for in his post.
Let me tell you
about Jesus,
When Jesus became
so real to me then I realized with him I have everything and everyone I need in
this life. As you go through the lyrics of this great hymn By Alan Jackson, I
pray it will make meaning to you and bring Jesus whom I love, come alive in
your heart. Amen
What a friend we
have in Jesus
All our sins
and griefs to bear
And what a
privilege to carry
Everything to
God in prayer
Oh, what peace we
often forfeit
Oh, what
needless pain we bear
All because
we do not carry
Everything to
God in prayer
Have we trials and
temptations?
Is there
trouble anywhere?
We should
never be discouraged
Take it to
the Lord in prayer
Can we find a
friend so faithful
Who will all
our sorrows share?
Jesus knows
our every weakness
Take it to
the Lord in prayer
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters:
Charles Crozat Converse / Joseph Scriven
What a Friend We
Have in Jesus lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing
Group
In the words of
Randy Newman, Jesus is saying to you today, “You’ve got a friend in me.”
You've got a friend
in me
You've got a
friend in me
When the road
looks rough ahead
And you're
miles and miles
From your
nice warm bed
Just remember
what your old pal said
Boy, you've
got a friend in me
You've got a
friend in me
You've got a
friend in me
You've got a
friend in me
You've got
troubles, well I've got 'em too
There isn't
anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick
together and we see it through
You've got a
friend in me
You've got a
friend in me
Some other folks
might be
A little bit
smarter than I am
Bigger and
stronger too
Maybe
But none of
them will ever love you the way I do
It's me and
you
And as the
years go by
Boy, our
friendship will never die
You're gonna
see
It's our
destiny
You've got a
friend in me
You've got a
friend in me
You've got a
friend in me
Let me make you
realize that there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs
18:24), There is one who has shown you greater love by laying down his life for
you (John 15:13). There is one that loves you at all times even in your sin
(Proverbs 17:17). There is one with him you get better returns for your works.
There is one who can help you up when you fall (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10). There is
one who will not mislead you but guide you into all the truth (I Corinthians
15:33, John 16:13). There is one who will never leave you (2 Kings 2:2, Matthew
28:20). There is one who understands your feelings and hurts (Hebrews 4:15).
There is one so honest, authentic, mutual, confidential, courteous and
reliable. He is Jesus and He loves you so much. Go to Him.
JESUS LOVES YOU!!!
With Love from,
Idoko, Meshach O.
Friend of the
Bridegroom
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