God Wants Me to Be Loving
An unending love
1 Samuel 20:41-42
Read the Bible through:
AM - 1 Chronicles 5-6 : PM - John 4:43-54
Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, since we have both sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, 'May the LORD be between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants, forever.'" So he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city. (1 Sam. 20:42)
An unending love
1 Samuel 20:41-42
Read the Bible through:
AM - 1 Chronicles 5-6 : PM - John 4:43-54
Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, since we have both sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, 'May the LORD be between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants, forever.'" So he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city. (1 Sam. 20:42)
Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene is one of the more famous English poems. Part of this late sixteenth century work focuses on friendship and includes a list (that name David and Jonathon) of those who exemplified this virtue. Following the catalogue, Spenser writes, "All these and all that ever had been tied, in bands of friendship, there did live forever, whose lives decayed, yet loves decayed never."
Spenser's assertion recalls Jonathan's tearful farewell to his best friend David. He explained that the love between true friends is an enduring gift from God Himself - lasting treasure that time, distance, and even death cannot erode. As David struggled to overcome the grief he felt at having to leave his friend, Jonathan reminded him that friendship among godly people reflects the unending love of God.
Father, may I never take for granted my precious friends.
