“One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” Proverbs 18:24 (NIV)
My friend’s name is Jesus, and He is very special. He is extremely intelligent, and He is very strong. He created the entire universe, and He created it because He wants to have fellowship with me. Oh, He wants to have fellowship with you, and with your neighbor, and with Peirre Monsant in Paris. Well, He wants to have fellowship with everybody. He has other qualities beyond great intelligence and great strength. He is the most loyal friend you will ever have—He will never leave you. In fact, He is with you all the time, and He is willing to talk with you any time. He’s a great listener, and He’s a great solver of problems, but you have to remember that His definition of time is different from ours. He solves problems, but He solves them on His timetable. That means that we have to be patient and really believe that He will solve our problems.
He really sounds like a great friend, right. Well, there’s more. He also created a beautiful place, even better than the universe. It’s called heaven, and there are no problems in heaven: no sickness, no crime, no sorrow, no tears, no money problems. He created heaven also so we can fellowship with Him for, not millions of years, not billions of years, but forever. And He went there ahead of us to prepare a place for each of us. I hope that you will join the rest of us there.
None of the qualities I have mentioned about Jesus are as important as His most prominent quality—His love, and He loves unconditionally with only one requirement. We must accept His love, and we must believe what He did for us. He has paid the penalty for all of our sins so we can all go to heaven, as long as we ask for His forgiveness and ask Him to be our Lord.
Sounds good, doesn’t it? It will be great. I look forward to seeing you in heaven someday, where the streets are paved with gold. Then we will be able to see Jesus in person and walk and talk with Him. If you want to learn more about my best friend, get a Bible and read it and go to a good church where they talk about Jesus all the time.
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