Good Morning, God,
The headlines this morning speak loudly of the winners and losers from last night's Super Bowl. And this is all well and good, for this is what sports contests are all about; there are many good things to be had through sports. There are rules, and the game is played, and there are the prizes, and the game is over except for the analysis and the bragging rights - until next year.
But, Lord God, your word talks about what we do in the big game of life, and one of the main rules is "Greater love has no one than this than he or she lays down their life for a friend." This brings up the question of "then who is my friend?"
Who, in the biblical sense, Lord, should our friends be? Are our friends only those who are like us - Those who walk like us, talk like us, like the same things as us? Are our friends those whom you put into our path who need us to do something for them? Are our friends to be someone from whom we are totally different because we need to learn from them something important?
Some would say, Lord, that a friend is just someone we haven't met and talked with and worked with and played with yet. So, today Lord, perhaps there is something you would have us learn from a stranger, a friend we just haven't gotten to know yet. so, may we keep our hearts on the look-out for the next person you want us to befriend.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
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