You Will Make an Effort for What's Important...Friendship


I've been blessed with some great friends in my life. I had a best friend in school for 6 years. We were inseparable. We did everything together. I still know to this day, 30 years later, that I can call on her for anything (and she can call me) even though we rarely keep in touch now. 

 Current day, I have a best friend that I met at our former church about 15 years ago. I think the world of her and even though they have moved 2 hours away now, we still try to speak every week and get together when we can. I know without a doubt that we will always be friends. That sounds corny, I know, but I felt it in my heart that she & I would be friends the moment we met. A few years later, we ended up best friends and haven't looked back. 

 I have other wonderful friends. I've been blessed to have a circle of friends that are there for me better than I deserve. Though, they don't all reach the standard of "best" friend, I wouldn't trade them for anything. 

 I think to have good friends, you need to be a good friend. In the case of my current best friend, we are miles apart now, so we have to make a conscious effort to keep the friendship alive. That is something we both want, so we are making it happen. It would be easy to stop contacting each other or rarely making contact, but that would also be the end of what we have now, I believe. 

 Because our friendship is important to us, we make an effort to keep it alive. The same is true of anything in our lives. If it is important to us, WE WILL MAKE AN EFFORT. I wanted to emphasize that. In the case of our Christianity, are we making a REAL EFFORT in what we are tasked with doing...reading & studying the Word, praying, reaching the lost, making disciples? Are we so bogged down with work, committees or kid's ballgames that we've lost sight of what we really need to focus on? 

 So, let's decided what is really important and work with all of our hearts for those things. Remember to keep God first in your life (not your spouse, not your kids, not your friends...God first) and make Him a priority and everything else will fall into place. 
 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends."
John 15:12 & 13

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