Maybe you get a sense of comfort and safety. Think about the way you feel around friends. How Do You Grow in Your Relationship with Christ? His loving friendship was on ultimate display when He gave His life up on a cross, shedding His innocent blood to cover the guilt of our sins.
He visits them and converses with them as his friends, bears with them and makes the best of them, is afflicted in their afflictions, and takes pleasure in their prosperity he pleads for them in heaven and takes care of all their interests there.īut His friendship goes even deeper than that. In the Bible, Jesus tells His followers, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). Matthew Henry’s Commentary explains it this way:Ĭhrist takes believers to be his friends.
Jesus cares when you’re hurt, angry, happy or sad. Then more than ever we discover that Jesus truly is our friend-‘All our sins and griefs to bear.’”ĭo you know Jesus that way-as a friend you can turn to and confide in? Someone who accepts you, has compassion on you and gives you wise counsel? In the midst of his grief, Scriven looked to Jesus as a close friend.īilly Graham once said, “Even sorrows turn to blessings when they make us less attached to the earth and more attached to God. “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.” > Scroll down to watch this song performed at a Billy Graham Crusade in 1976. That’s because not once, but twice he lost a fiancée to death shortly before they were to be married. When Joseph Scriven penned “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” in 1855, the words flowed from his soul. The Son of God wants to have a thriving, two-way relationship with you. That’s something you might have heard before, but don’t skim over that sentence too quickly. Take a minute to let it sink in. If you asked people to name their closest friend, how many would say Jesus?Įach of us was created to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer! What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear! This year, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s summer series is taking a look at five popular hymns sung at Billy Graham Crusades-and how those songs fit into our lives today.
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