Great Love, Great Friend

What value would you place on a good friend? A friend is a priceless treasure.

There are two phrases about friendship with God that appear in adjacient verses in John 15.

13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.14 You are my friends if you do what I command.

Friendship with Jesus involves great love.  He laid down his life freely.  But there is another slant to this also. He calls us to lay down our lives too.  Great love is seen in both verses. Obedience involves laying down our lives. It is laying down our self-will, preferring God's will over our own.

What a friend we have in Jesus.  Jesus, may I be your friend too.