Friendships

Well it has been a good while since I have written, not that anyone would really care since no has actually read any of my posts, but whatever. I have been back in Georgia for a good three months now, and fairly well into my fall semester of Sophomore year at Georgia Tech. I also have gotten my very own guitar recently, as well as my share of the flu as it seems most people are getting. Some things have not changed too much and that is the dynamics of Friendships. It seems my ability to comprehend why people do certain things slips further and further away as I look at relationships that I see between people. I sometimes don't even know what I am doing half the time either though, so I guess friendships tend to just be interesting phenomena best left to observe and learn from. The Bible definitely provides some good insight into relationships. I always thought it interesting when looking at the relationship of David and Johnathan. David said of Johnathan after he had died that, "Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of a women." Keep in mind he was not saying anything sexual or referencing that friendship is greater than marital love, but here are two men of the Lord that love each other so much that they literally gave their lives for each other. Johnathan's father wanted to kill David, but Johnathan helped him escape on several occasions and even faced his father on several occasions in defense of David. When I look at my life I have to ask myself if I have someone like Johnathan in my life, cuz man they would have to be the one person that I could trust with my life to be my friend even in the worst. For myself I know who my Johnathan would be and honestly I could be content if he was my only friend. I enjoy having lots of friends, but on looking at how many "friends" I have on facebook I can't really think of anyone I talk to more regularly than this person. Having someone you can relate to and share anything with is such a blessing. Even if you had all the friends in the world with no deep fellowship with any of them, I would rather just have one good friend. For some in the Bible though God was the only friend they had. People like Jeremiah or Elijah were shunned by their people. They relied on God for everything. It was because no one around them shared the same fervor for the Lord that they stood singularly at God's side. I think having someone to share that experience of God in my life with is such a blessing and has brought me closer in my relationship with God. Which is the most important relationship of them all.