Jesus, Our One True Friend

    " 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 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. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other."- John 15:12-17 (NIV)

         As I read these verses, I see a pattern in them. God wants us to love others. There is no greater love then laying down your life for a friend. That is where Christians usually stop but if you keep going there is a stronger message. It is about who we are in Christ. We are no longer servants but His friends. Only if we chose to love others, though, because love comes from Christ. We know that "Love" is our Master's business so we have no excuse to not be doing it. Don't get me wrong. No one is perfect but Christ. I know we mess up a lot but there is something about acting it out then just saying you know it. 
           A friend lets another friend know what he has learned or going on in their life. A friend puts another friend's dream before anything else, even if it is harder and they need to remind themselves a lot on why the dream is happening. They let the other friend know everything about them. As mean as it may sound, we choose our friends like Jesus chose us. He knew He could trust us with His Plan about loving other people. He is a friend that will give us what we ask for if it is the best and safest for us. He, also, watches out for us. 
           In a way, Jesus knew that we would stand beside Him through anything or that is His and our Hope at least. Do you have an earthly friend or friends that loves you no matter what you are like or are going through or will do in the future? We are need to have friends like that in our lives. God made us to be relational people and that is one way we can be relational.