Vbf

I was pondering the other evening where some of my old “very best friends” (VBFs) are today. With social media, I have stayed in contact with many friends and coworkers. Yet I lost contact long ago with others. I haven’t heard from childhood friends, Vonnie, Diane, and Barb, since our high school days. Another high school chum and I stayed in contact for a long time. In her last letter to me, she asked for money but didn’t say why. I wrote back that I couldn’t help right then because of my divorce and having barely enough money for my daughter and me.

 I had a couple of other VBFs: another Barb and Shelia. We hung out together as young mothers. In fact, Barb and I took Shelia for a ride on her wedding day, trying to talk her out of marrying her fiancé because we felt she could do better. The funny thing is that her marriage has lasted, but neither Barb’s nor mine did. Shelia and I are still in contact . . . but where is Barb?

 Friendships in this sinful world are fragile and can be destroyed for the simplest of reasons. But we need not despair, for there is a Friend who will stick with us through thick and thin. He will never desert or leave us. He will never get so angry with us that he severs the relationship. Proverbs 18:24 states the following: “A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” (NKJV).

That friend is Jesus. As recorded in John 15:13, Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (NKJV). A beautiful contemporary Christian song states that Jesus didn’t want to be in heaven eternally without us, so He brought the blessings of heaven down to us. More and more, I am learning that He is the true Friend we all long for deep within our souls. He knows me and loves me just as I am. I am so thankful for that! In the lonely times when I feel like I am deserted by the world, I have only to think about Him, my faithful Friend, Jesus, and I don’t feel lonely anymore.

 The beautiful thing about Jesus is that, since His heart is so big, He can be your VBF too.

 Mona Fellers