Sunday, January 29, 2012

Genuine Friends

John 15:9-17
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In the New American Oxford Dictionary 2009, they named "unfriend" as the Word of the Year. I'm pretty sure we all know what that word means. On Facebook, have you ever unfriended or took someone off your friend list?

Even on tumblr, we hear of lost friendships and quotes of people saying, "I miss you" or "Wish we were as close as we were before." It seems that friendships come and go like our breathing; it's so easy to forget the meaning of a true friend these days. Sometimes these people that you have on Facebook, you've never met face to face!

“No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you” [John 15:15]


Jesus, as a friend of the disciples, asked them hours before he died to keep their friendship alive by following  His commands. He should be our ultimate friend; the one we would lay down our lives for. If you say you could lay down your life for your best friend, you should be able to do that for Jesus too, our eternal friend. 

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The dearest friend on earth 
is but a mere shadow compared to Jesus.

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