It is said that we can choose our friends, but we are stuck with our family members. I would add to that that we can also choose our enemies. Of course all of this centers around our knowing each person. A wise man chooses to have mostly friends and as few enemies as possible. It works out best if we start off with being our own friend. To love others we must first love ourselves. Then we need to do our very best to love others and be in a good relationship with them in as much as it is possible. In other words … do our part. We can’t control what others think of us or act around us but if we do our best it will hopefully help them to think well of us and do right by us. I would say that it is normal for most of us to have more less neutral feelings toward others. After all there is only so much room in our lives for relationships. We can have a lot of friends, but only so many close friends and fewer yet very special friendships.

We live in a day and age of “social media” via the internet. As I was writing this I started wondering what the highest number of “friends” anyone has on Facebook so I looked it up and was surprised at what I found. Do you know the answer to that? Facebook has a set limit of 5000 friends and many members have that many. That has no appeal to me. I am a fairly heavy users of Facebook but I don’t use it like that. In fact, I only have one friend of Facebook and that was not until very recently when I requested to be friends with my brother whom I have not had any means of communication with at all for about 35 years.

I started off writing this for a specific reason which I haven’t even touched on yet. God has friends too … a lot more than 5000. Unlike Facebook He does not place any limit of the number of friends He can have. Just like with Facebook one must make the request to become a friend of God. Did you know that if you are not God’s friend then you are His enemy? That is because of sin. God hates sin. He loves the sinner but He hates the sin. And we are all sinners making us His enemies. The sin problem must be dealt with. Once it is dealt with we can become God’s friend.

One thing about it, God does not care how many friends we have. However He very much cares about the friends we have and will help us in our personal relationships.