Best Freinds Series

I guess both David and Jonathan had other friends, but the relationship they shared with each other was unique. They knew the truth of Proverbs which says .....

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24).

For David and Jonathan they found this friend in one another.

A newspaper held a competition to find out how people would describe friendship. The winning answer was, “A friend is someone who’s walking in when everyone else is walking out.”

You and I have a friend that will do that, a friend who will stick closer than a brother. Jesus said,

“Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age" (Matthew 28:20)

And when he said it he was only living up to his name, “Immanuel”--which means, "God with us." (Matthew 1:23)

CONCLUSION

Well, I don’t know about you, but I need more friends like David and Jonathan. And I need to be more like David and Jonathan.

Some of us have lots of friends, but we’ve not taken the time to pay attention to their needs – to be a best friend. We’re not ready to help them because we don’t know what they need. Others don’t have many friends and perhaps we need to be emotionally honest enough to let people know us better. Perhaps we need to show a little more affection. Perhaps we need to try true fellowship (Start in one of our weekly small group bible studies).

Or maybe your friendships are under tension at the moment and you’re tempted to just walk away instead of hanging in there. The challenge for you is to ask what your friend Jesus would do.

We have a model for all of our friendships in Jesus. In fact we have more than a model, we have a friend for ourselves who is closer than a brother.