Today, when surfing the web, I happened upon this, and it really hit home with me.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and the worst of us and who loves us in spite of our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us while the world will flatter us to our faces and laugh behind our backs; who will give counsel and reproof in the day of prosperity and self conceit; but who, again will comfort and encourage us in the day of difficulty and sorrow when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battles as we can.
In the past few months, I have been going through a lot of private battles, a time that I needed someone to just be there. But no one was there. In the past, I had a close friend that I could and did share with, someone that I could talk to, my best friend. Life took the friend away from me, and I was left with a lot of emotions… hurt over the loss, anger that a friendship could be tossed aside so easily, angry that after being there for so long for the friend that when I needed someone I was avoided for months, and most of all wondering why I put so much trust into a human being.. who after all is only human.
And for whatever reason, I happened upon a site today that had the above passage. It opened my eyes to something I know but let fall away.. that we have only one true Friend, and that is God. People will always let us down, leave us and abandon us when we aren’t needed anymore, forget us, use us. To put total trust in a human is nothing short of a mistake. If we put our trust in a person or persons rather than in God, then we are only asking to be hurt because a person will simply never always be there. Sooner or later, they leave. God never leaves. He never leaves us alone.
When I saw that passage today, it made me realize why I have had such private battles in the past few months….99% of the battle was me not going to God and trusting Him to take care of everything. I was so busy being upset and hurt that a friend was avoiding me, upset over the loss of the closeness I once had with the friend, that I totally lost sight of the one Friend who was just waiting for me to go to Him… God.
If your heart is crying out for someone to be there, someone to listen, someone to really care… then cry out to Jesus. He doesn’t just hear, He listens. He always has time for you. He isn’t too busy with other things. He doesn’t leave and abandon you. He isn’t a fair weather friend.. here while he needs you but gone when you need him. He’s what a Friend is… in it for the long haul, our most Precious Possession.
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