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Jesus is our true friend. As believers, we recognize Jesus Christ as our Savior, our Mediator, the ultimate sacrifice for all of humanity. But do we also see Him as a friend? It’s easy to lose sight of the more practical nature of Jesus’ humanity in the light of His great works and sacrifices for the world. But regarding Him as friend implies a more intimate connection, one that involves the heart. When we consider Jesus as a friend, He makes Himself available for us to experience Him at the deepest levels of our greatest need. In other words, when we make Jesus our true friend, He intervenes in the most complex chaos of our lives and brings order. Like Jonathan intervened on David’s behalf, Christ has done so on ours. He is our true friend. The question is, are we a true friend to Him?

Think about how you might be a better friend to Jesus. He stated in John 15:14, “You are my friends if you do what I command you” (NRSV). Friendship with Jesus is simple, but we must desire, like Jonathan, to be people of integrity and loyalty. We should be able to sing along with the hymnologists, “What a friend we have in Jesus” or “There’s not a friend like the lowly Jesus.”