When You Need A Friend (ESV)

God desires to be your best friend. He comes to you with His heart in His hands offering you His love. It is difficult to trust the people we can see, and more difficult to trust God who we cannot see; yet He is there ready and hoping you will permit Him to prove Himself (Malachi 3:10). Have you tried God lately? We will try everything before we try God; relationships, money, drugs, etc. And then we come to God in broken confusion ready for Him to put the pieces back together. And He does. He always requests that we come to Him with our burdens and concerns (Matthew 11:28) and He will be there. Why not try God first? Building a relationship with anyone takes work and time. We invest so much work and time in relationships with people who are potentially just as selfish as we are, or more so. We can take that same work and time to invest in a relationship with God. God is always interested in our good. And God has already risked it all for us. Can you risk it all for God? Friendships are