“I want you to know how much I have agonized for you..”
Imagine if every believer who was confident in the reality of Christ’s death on the cross agonized for their friends. You see, as a committed follower of Christ, it is not enough to just know the truth, but to share the truth. We know about a love that is so powerful that it defeated death. We know about a love that knows no boundaries. We know about a love that is available to every living creature. We know about all these things, yet we keep them to ourselves. If we truly believe in the power of God, than we should want so badly for all of our friends to get to experience him. We are called not only to love on our friends as Christ did, but to agonize for them. To agonize for our friends is to make sure that we do everything in our earthly power to make sure that they know this truth. For our friends who are skeptics, we continually prove the love of God through the way we live. For our friends who know of God but don’t know God, we pray for a divine encounter. For our friends who think that they are too far gone, we teach them of the redemption of the cross. For our friends who believe that they are too broken too be healed, we show them every example of healing that is in the Bible. We cannot just sit by and watch our friends wonder if God is present in their lives, we must prove to them that he is. True friendship in the body of Christ is to agonize for the ones that we love.
Pray. Pray that God will reveal to you the friendships that require you to act a little more. Pray for your friends that are not believers. It may seem frustrating to continually pray and not be able to visibly see results, but you have no idea what God is doing in their hearts. Don’t ever stop praying for your friends.