Loving someone is a huge risk. I always look at the risk Jesus took and I am like wow! Talk about dying for some ungrateful people. Now sometime back my friend was caught up in some criminal activity with her husband. She was about to go to jail was how bad it was. This is someone I love dearly as a friend and she’s one of my prayer partners. We have been through alot together. We have mutual friends too. Believers. So when it happened I was stressed, depressed, sad, angry and in shock at the same time. I didn’t sleep well for like a week.
After I calmed down. I went to several people including the pastor of the church I go to for lunch hour fellowship. To ask that they help me pray and fast on the issue. A certain gentleman who is a mutual friend asked me why the issue was stressing me out so much and I told him bcz we are friends. Like she’s been there for me through alot. So when I calmed down I went to our mutual friends to discuss how to go about it. I am telling you, that woman is so loved by so many people. So many people were willing to go all out to help her. We all know the fickle nature of friends but let me tell you she has alot of love and support through out the whole ordeal.
So whenever I would discuss it with close friends in our circle they were all going through what I went through. Sleepless nights, depression and anger. So I was like when we love people we don’t really understand how much we invest in them through that attachment. If anything happens to them even of their own making, we suffer with them. It had never dawned on me the ripple effects of our actions. When we do wrong it hurts so many people and most of all it hurts God bcz God loves us a great deal more than any friend could ever love us.
We should all be so lucky to have great friends, faithful friends and loving friends like this woman has and is also to others. For majority of humans nobody will stand by them under such circumstances but my heart was so warmed by how so many came together to help her even if it was her fault she was in trouble. Love and friendship has been so cheapened that what most people have are frenemies who you share with them your health problems or personal problems and they use it against you. Or use it to feel better about themselves. Even alot of people who claim to be Christians are not loyal friends and they lack compassion for their friends as the Word says in the last days the love of many will grow cold. Many believers do not live even care about their own siblings. For those blessed with such a amazing friendship please remember not to heartbreak the precious and rare gift of love and friendship the Lord bequeaths to you by not doing things that hurt you because if something hurts you, it hurts them by the fact that they love and care for you.
Greater love has no man than this, he who lays down His life for His friend.
FOR those who are not good friends especially believers. Every time the temptation to talk ill about your friends comes, even when it is the truth and it looks justified in your eyes to judge, to slander, to speak about your friends short comings. Please remember the sweet and kind words of Jesus. They(worldly) people shall know that you are My disciples by your love one for another.
Next time you feel like you want to either be a friend who slanders or judges, remember Jesus and how He showed great love to Peter after Peter had even denied Him thrice. The Spirit of the Lord within us gives us the power to be these things that worldly people can not be. I remember one time a moslem friend of mine was deathly ill and the Lord spoke to me and told me to get our mutual friends who are believers and we fast for her healing. It just blew my mind, the love God has. Yaani you are not even worshipping Him but He still loves you so much that He will bring you healing through the prayers of believers without you even asking Him. What kind of love is that? God always amazes me. ALWAYS.