Juan 15: 12 -17Jesus was speaking with his disciples and he said, “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.1Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.14You are my friends if you do what I command.I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other."ON THE SHOULDER OF THE FRIEND"Today I don't want to call you a teacher, although I learn so much from you.Nor treat you as Lord, although your love is my law. I don't want to name you with sound titles, full of importance and promises.I just want to call you friend.I say friend, with the need of someone who knows that alone they will not get far.With the intensity of someone who wants to share time, heart and life.Friend to cry the sorrows and celebrate the holidays, to silence the noises and calm the fears.To fight, shoulder to shoulder, the fair battles.And if you see that I fail you, tell me, friend, because with your hugs, I will learn.”
Do I have a friendship with God? Do I listen to God?
