This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. | ||
| Song of Solomon 5:16 (b) | ||
| Some married couples are passionately in love but fight like cats and dogs and tell me they’re not even friends. Romantically and physically, they’re in love - but they don’t like each other very much. Such is not the case with Jesus, for He’s not only our Lover, He’s also our Friend (John 15:15). And He desires to cultivate a deep and meaningful relationship with us. If you spent as much time with your best friend as you spend with the Lord on a daily basis, how deep would your friendship be? If you spent four minutes a day, five minutes every other day, or twenty minutes every third week together, what kind of friendship would you have? So often, when we say, “I just don’t feel the presence of the Lord. I don’t enjoy His company,” it’s because we haven’t invested time in cultivating His friendship. “Be not deceived,” warned Paul. “Whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap” (see Galatians 6:7). Jesus enjoys me. Even though many times I don’t even like myself, He continues to call me friend. What a great and marvelous mystery! Pastor Jon Courson | ||
