Best Friend

4.8.12

Why do you choose to tell someone a story and omit the truth, yet when it’s time to have a date with your best friend, you can’t help but spill the beans? Well, you trust them. Think about the first time you met this person. The person that you love and would do just about anything for. Maybe there was a connection at first, or not. Whatever the case, you got to know them. I’ll tell you the story of my best friend relationship to help paint this picture.

I met my best friend at a youth gathering. We exchanged a few words that any basic conversation can hold. By the next week we started sharing secrets. Simple gossip, discussing what we thought of other people and how our interaction were with them. It was like that for weeks. Giggling and having inside jokes. Eventually we were extremely comfortable with one another. She opened up to me about a tragedy that had happened in her recent past. I was numb. One, I could not believe what had happened, and two, she trusted me with that information. Soon after, we often exchanged things from our past. It helped to see who we were at that moment, what made us tick. That soon led to the present. It was like we were each others personal journal. Being with her was like breathing. It was so easy to tell her my life. She cared about me, and wanted to know my life. She wanted to comfort me and find out how to make me happy. This was the same for her. If I hadn’t seen her in a while, it made me feel less of her life. Unimportant and that I couldn’t help her. I love her, and still do. I have such a well ran relationship with her because I know who she is. I know her secrets and dreams. I know how to make her smile, and when to just hold her when she cries. Our lives are intertwined.

So the point of that brief story is that I told her everything out of love and trust. To this day, I would still do anything for her, and vice versa. Today I was hit with this whole idea about a relationship in general and most importantly with God. Why do people reject Him, and choose not to have a relationship with Him? While others easily embrace the idea of having a relationship with some supernatural being. Either we don’t trust Him, or we are so hungry for that type of relationship we fall into the relationship and trust naturally.

To answer as to why we don’t lies in the fact that perhaps we don’t know who He is. We don’t spend time with Him. You don’t divulge the skeletons in your closets to a stranger. This isn’t much of a difference. Basically I am saying that He invites us to a relationship. He invites us to become His best friend. To know His past, present, and future dreams (especially for us) from reading the Bible. It’s all there. Just like my best friend, we progressively got more and more comfortable. Easier to connect with and identify my troubles and moments of happiness. God is the same way. He wants to share these moments with us. But how on earth can you trust someone when you don’t know them?