Tomorrow I will meet my best friend in Centralia. We will spend the night in a motel and each return home Sunday. Reason for the trip - to maintain a vital relationship that has lasted over 30 years despite the fact that for the past 20+ years, we have lived in different states. I love her company, am eager to hear about her family as she is mine, and enjoy doing things together.
Because our relations has weathered many life changes we know each other at a deep level and trust one another with our hearts. Our relationship is the model that my daughter Daidri and her best friend Chris use to maintain their friendship when life circumstances moved them to different states.
Jesus is a friend who stick closer than a brother, or your best girlfriend. Be sure to develop an intimate friendship with Him. Setting aside time to visit, to listen and to pour out your heart to Him. He will go to any length to meet with you if you initiate the meeting and He will stay as long as you ask. He lives in heaven, but if you repent of your sins and ask him to be your Savior he will reside in your very life through the Holy Spirit. If you are already a Christian, my question for you and me is: Do I make the effort to spend as much time with Jesus as my earthly friends? Do I set aside time for Him or make excuses (to myself) about being too busy ?
The road to estrangement is paved with good intentions in a relationship and the road to intimacy is paved with deliberate and loving effort.
Let's all work on our relationship with the one who gave His all to redeem us!