Faith And Friendship
"Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus." -St. John 11:1 "One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was lying close to the breast of Jesus;..." -St. John 13:23 "And Jesus looking upon him loved him..." -St. Mark 10:21 We all have a best friend. We may have known our best friends all of our lives or we may have met them more recently. Whatever other relationships to us they may have, they are, above and beyond everything else, our best friends. We know them. We trust them. We love them. We have all been to dinner with our best friends. Maybe it hasn't been for awhile. Maybe it was just last night. Whenever it was, spending that time with our best friends is always like none other. So, let us each think about being out to dinner with our best friends. For the sake of this illustration, our best friends' name is John. We are at the restaurant, sitting at a table, and talking with John. Maybe it is only about ten or fifteen minut...