I was really thinking about what "Friendship" meant to me today. It came up in a conversation with a great friend of mine and those three simple but very meaningful words, "I Love You." I only tell a handful of people those words, perhaps it's so that they don't loose their full impact in my life. You all have probably heard these words thrown around like Mardi-Gras beads to a rambunctious crowd of on-lookers; but, search deeply as to whom you say it, and consider, "Do I really mean it?" Jesus says in John chapter 15 verse 13, "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friend." Do you love this person so much you are willing to die for that person? If your answer is "YES!!" then I encourage you to say these words, because behind them is great power. On the other hand, If your answer is "NO" then I strongly encourage you to evaluate that friendship. Don't get me wrong I don't mean its wrong if you say no, but consider how this person effects your everyday life.
I have a handful of people I call friends, and I can say that they have impacted my life and I have theirs. For these people I would drop anything, give them a kidney if they needed it, put my life in danger for if it came down to it. these people have continually brought me back to God and his word, we have edified each other in the word, and (maybe not in all cases) laughed and cried together. I thank God that he has put them in my life and that they, at most are only a phone call away.
Do you have anyone in your life that you can say that about? If not I encourage you to pray for God to put those people in your life, that you may know what a true friend is, and get to grow closer to each other through God. Friends are Important, and to those who read this and are my dear friends, "I love you."
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I've been struggling with the idea of "friendship" for some time now.
There are a few people in my life who... well, we do share similar interests and hobbies, and we spend time together.
But I don't consider them my friends. It's hard to describe, and it might be unfair to them, but they don't feel like friends to me.
It's like... we do these one or two things together and that makes us friends? No. At least not in my opinion.
But as to the words "I love you"?
I can recall only saying that twice to non-family.
And both of the times I've greatly meant it.
I would give my life for them. I would, Orpheus-like, go into the underworld for them.
There's a part of me that loves too easily... but there is another part who is cautious before he says so.
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