Updated Apr 27, 2009 Sequencer Unknown Loneliness is everywhere around us, sometimes within us, and is often responded to with, "If you want a friend, make yourself friendly"; taken from Proverbs 18:24. We gulp, give it a try, and conclude it does not work. Scripture always works when properly applied. Perhaps we are friendly for what we can get out of it (James 4:3), or we take the meaning too lightly. Jesus is our best model of what a friend could and should be. In all the ways He has loved us, we are to love each other; John 15:12. There is not much room for loneliness when our vessel is filled with love. All it takes is enough compassion to be the difference (Jude 22) and, in so doing, we can not out give God; Luke 6:38. In staying the course, we may also find the desires of our heart (Psalm 37:3-4) and to have both found and become a friend like Jesus. The most beautiful part being that we would have become a best friend to Jesus, caring more about the desires of His heart than ours. And when we walk with Him, we are and are being made complete. Not forgetting we are also human, why not give others a break and love them anyway? Then, when they do not receive, just shake the dust off your feet and try again another day. But better yet, seek those in need. It could just be that the desire of their heart is the same as yours - to have a friend like Jesus. Now who could resist that?