There are several things that go into a lasting friendship, such as mutual loyalty, the ability to keep a confidence, as well as being comfortable in intimate conversation. But first and foremost, above all, true friendship is willing to accept the other, just as he or she is…warts and all. The famine of true friendship today can be traced to the fact that one or both party’s fears rejection. As someone has said, “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you.”
We should constantly keep our friendships in repair. The wise man said, “…when thou art come into…thy friend…humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.” David and Jonathan are good examples of this. Their relationship epitomized what Aristotle said: “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Again, it has been said, “No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.”
Many of us, because of death or the fact of geography, long for the camaraderie we once enjoyed with friends. But to all you lonely, seemingly friendless souls, I remind you “…there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” And remember, too, it is He that said to His followers, “Ye are my friends.” The songwriters had it right when they penned, “There’s not a Friend like the lowly Jesus,” and “What a friend we have in Jesus.”
Thank God, He’s my Friend. He accepts me the way I am. And I have no fear of ever being rejected by Him.
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