Friends

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.” (John 15:12-15) God is a God of relationship and it is because of His relationship with His Son that His Son, Jesus was willing to do whatever the Father wanted Him to do. In John 6:38 Jesus proclaims, “For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of Him who sent me.” The end result of Jesus’ obedience is our ability to become one with Christ, to be called “friends.”To be someone’s friend means that you have a support system, someone with whom you can share your life, laugh with, cry with, have differing opinions and yet you know they will be there for and with you for the rest of your life. Over the past few weeks, many in our nation have been seeking to understand the injustices occurring all around us. Hearing people say they have a “black friend” or a “white friend” does not emulate who Jesus chose to call His friends. His friends were those who chose to do the will of God and simply put, it means to love everyone. Jesus goes on to say that “everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”Brothers and Sisters simply put, it’s all about love and if you really want to eradicate the language of hate, if you really want to understand what it means to be children of God then you have to take your lessons from God the best teacher and His message in one word is love