This past Saturday evening, I watched my son exchange vows with his bride. Now, I really understand two important things about our relationship with Jesus…
We know He is coming back again for His bride. Who is she really?
When I saw and read some comments about how my son and his bride are “best friends” and how much they love each other, it dawned on me… that’s’ the relationship He’s looking for with us.
He always has wanted the relationship to be “best friends and first love.” (Not claiming to be his best friend, like the world claims, but really being “His best friend”… and knowing that “He is our best friend.”)
Of course He is our Lord, but the relationship He wants, is the closeness and nearness of “best friends.”
My son in law gave a “best friend speech” at my son’s wedding reception, in which he basically described, “The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation …”
My son found that “best friend” and love in his new wife. She looks at him, like there’s no other person in the room… When he is not near, she looks for him till she finds him.
Jesus said, “I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you “friends,” because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.”
He doesn’t want to keep secrets from us and He doesn’t want us to try and keep secrets from Him. He wants His “bride,” with no fears and no worries, knowing that the best friend you have, will NEVER let you down.
Maybe this is why God hates divorce so vehemently. It’s an earthly parallel of Jesus and the Bride of Christ. When you say a person is your “best friend and love,” you have proclaimed an everlasting bond of commitment to a relationship of love and friendship. Is there anything stronger? Yes, when Jesus is the foundation of that relationship between a man and woman… NOTHING can break it.
The Apostle Paul said, “Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it, so that he might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word, and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault.
“Best friends love” never hides secrets from each other.
There’s a cleansing and pure love from being “best friends” with Jesus. He keeps the relationship clean by “washing us with water (His Holy Spirit) and the Word.
When you have that “best friend” relationship, unbroken… by your choice as well as His… you will be without spot, wrinkle (worries and cares of this life) holy and without fault. And you know that when someone attacks you, you needn’t stress… your best friend will have your back!
If two young people can illustrate such a picture of their relationship with each other, how much more is God Himself wanting our “best friend love” relationship forever?
We are the Bride He’s coming back for…
Is He your love and “best friend?”
