Your Best Best Friend
Growing up it seemed having the cool guy be your best friend was a really big deal. I remember in the 7th grade for me I thought it would be a really big deal to have one certain guy be my friend, after all everyone thought he was the coolest and toughest guy in school so to be able to say he was my friend would be awesome.
So after winning a fight with another boy one day after school I got my wish. The guy I wanted to recognize me and like me, did! We became friends. For that school year I felt so important! Others seeing him come up to me and say hey Tim and walk down a hallway together made them treat me differently as well. In a way, I guess one could say I was using that friendship totally to my advantage because I am not sure what, if anything, I brought to the table to his advantage.
I mean think about it, I wanted him to be my friend for what advantage it would bring to me. Kinda selfish when you really think about it. But he didn’t seem to mind it.
For much of modern Christianity, this is the kind of attitude that dominates the culture. Many, including myself at times, just want Jesus for what He can do to their advantage. Jesus is desired as a ticket to heaven, but not as much for being a close companion and someone to seek out just for the fellowship value it offers. Jesus is sought after for healing, or help in other areas, but not so much for the warmth of fellowship He could offer and bring.
You see it’s one thing to want Jesus for what He can do for me, but it’s a whole other thing to want Him for who He is, and the privilege it is to get to know Him. The older I get the more I realize that the goal of my salvation isn’t so much to attain heaven and all the things Jesus offers me by belonging to Him. The real goal of my salvation is the privilege of having Him as my best best friend ever! My older brother! My High Priest! My greatest confidant! Heaven will be great, but only because my best best friend will be there for all eternity. All the benefits He gives me in this life are wonderful but they are meant to point to the reality of His fellowship in my life.
It’s so true that Jesus has already healed me by His stripes, He has already provided me with everything promised in the word by God because all the promises are yes and amen in Christ!
But the most special thing of all is the fact that, Jesus truly wants to be my closest friend, my most reliable confidant, and He wants to include me in His fellowship with the Father and the Holy Spirit equally with the same access He has! It was His prayer in John 17!
I do not know of a greater privilege and purpose than being allowed to fellowship intimately with such greatness and perfection. To be invited into the inner circle of the Godhead! Can it get any better than that? That is what my salvation is about! It is what your salvation is about! I encourage you today to take advantage of your invitation, I know you received one too when you came to Jesus. Grow in the fellowship privilege your best best friend has provided you with. I promise you will not be disappointed.
