How many of you have a few or more close friends you greatly admire and enjoy hanging out with. Maybe for you, its just your family that you really enjoy spending time with. I know for me, I enjoy hanging out with a few very close friends, and also I really enjoy my family. Usually you can only count your closest friends on one hand, and that is definitely something I have found to be true. Through and through all these other people who call themselves friends just fade away. The main people who I have chosen to stay in unity with are mainly a few friends and my family. Everybody else is only superficial. I encourage you to do the same.
Find a few close friends who you can rely on and talk to about anything without them criticizing you. The best way to guage whether someone is a true friend is if they can listen to your problems, not be offended, and try to help you work through the pain. Don't go in search of all these other people to fill the emptiness or loneliness you feel inside. Rather learn to trust and rely on your family and few close friends; you know they won't let you down. The other friends will come later when your not even trying to make a friendship happen. This goes for all kinds of relationships.
Maybe you feel like you can never seem to make any friends or maybe your faamily has desserted you. Well I wanted to tell you now about the friend who has transformed my life. He never lets me down. He listens to everything I ever tell Him, and His promises for me are greater than I could ever imagine. You see, this friends name is Jesus Christ and He has set me free and redeemed me from a hopeless life of sin.Jesus loved me and called me a friend long before I ever even thought of Him. Romans 5:6 says, "For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly." That was me, you, my family, your family, my friends, your friends and everyone else that Christ died for. You know He died for you and I so that we don't have to strive to make friends because of emptiness and loneliness we feel inside. Why? you might ask. Well it is because He loves you and I more than we could ever imagine. Romans 8:38 says "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor powers nor things present nor things to come, (39) nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to sperate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
You see God loves you so much that he wants to be your closest friend so that nothing can seperate you from His love. He loves you more than you can imagine.
Please respond to Him. Romans 10:9 says, ":That if you believe in your heart the Lord Jesus, and confess with your mouth that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Believe in Christ and what He has done for you (He died a horrific death for you so that you didn't have to, and this payed for every sin you ever have done so that you don't have to pay the consequence I promise you if you respond to this overwhelming love of God out of a true heart of repentance from your sins and tell others about it, your life will be radically changed and Romans 5:1 will become so true in your life, "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." This amazing peace is waiting for you. Respond to Christ in belief and faith in His Son Jesus Christ and what He did for you.
He will take every fear, every rejection, every hurt, every pain of losing those closest to you, every tear over a disability or anger problem you may now have now, and even every rage or anger you may feel towards somebody for causing you harm. He will take all of these things and wipe them away. He'll take away the heavy weight off your chest, the depression you battle, and the hopelessness you live with everyday and throw all these burdens as far as the east is from the west!
Please, I implore you to respond to Him and let me know, or maybe you have questions,
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