Best friends talk.  Two individuals who share a connection choose to communicate with each other.  They do not attempt to speak one time and then refrain, but they speak together, thinking of one another, sharing with the other confidences, concerns, and cares because they know the one whom they label as ‘best’ has their ‘BEST’ interests at heart and not harm.

• Thus, the question becomes:  Why do believers in Jesus fail to talk with their Lord daily?
• & Also:  Why do followers of Jesus not seek the Lord with all their heart, as they should?
• & Finally:  Why do Christ-followers attempt to walk through each day without first speaking with their best friend, with Jesus, the Master of their heart?

In one of his many psalms, the man David, who is known as a man after God’s own heart, wrote:

• When do you and I need the LORD?        DAILY!
• Should we attempt to walk through this day without the LORD’S guidance?   NO, WE SHOULD NOT!

Truly, we need the LORD in the morning-time, during our lunchtime, and then in the evening-time.  Maybe that’s why we are instructed to eat three meals each day because the LORD knew how weak we really are (were), how there is (was) no possible way for us to walk throughout the day without the LORD’S presence.

When I was a child, I did not know the LORD as my Savior.  Yet even then, my parents taught me the power of prayer.  Whenever we sat to eat our meals, we were taught to first bow our heads and extend our thankfulness to God for the food He provided us to eat.  Today, we continue this practice.

During a conversation with my niece, she relayed the story of her best friend who recently became a believer, how the two girls went to dinner with their spouses, and how, prior to the meal, the unsaved one paused, waiting for my niece or her husband to pray.  Immediately, my niece said she knew something was different about her best friend because before that day, her friend and her spouse immediately began eating, not pausing to offer thanks for their food.  That particular day, her best friend and spouse paused, waiting for them to  pray.  My niece knew her friend had changed, when she recognized how prayer was necessary.

It’s amazing how God places within our hearts a gratefulness when we become His child.

Best friends talk; they do not refrain from talking together, from listening, or from sharing.  Jesus is a friend like no other!  Therefore, we should not become impoverished or fatigued, allowing our days to be in constant communication with our Lord.  When we arise, He should be first on our mind; when we pause for lunch, He should be there in our thoughts, and when we lay our heads on the pillow at night, He should be present there to, as we drift off to sleep.  Let us not hunger or thirst for anything as much as we thirst for our LORD, for prayer is the lifeblood of a Christian’s walk with GOD.  Talking with our Savior is the active way we offer our love, and then our Redeemer leads us to love others as we should.  The Bible is clear in its instruction:  We sin when we cease or refuse to Pray.

The LORD led His prophet Samuel to write this truth at the period in history when they were seeking an earthly king, when they were unwilling to wait for the LORD provision.  They were in a hurry and wished to have someone to lead them.  Little did the people know the LORD would allow them to have that which they desired, to receive the man who was exactly what they did not need: Saul as their first king of Israel. Unfortunately, they had forgotten how:  GOD WAS TO BE THEIR KING, THEIR SHEPHERD & THEIR LORD.

See the way the prophet Samuel addressed the children of Israel.

• Let us learn from their error.
• May we learn and listen to God’s man of the hour.
• Shall we receive the instruction the LORD would have us to gain.
• We are to pray for others and for ourselves—daily.

Far be it from us that we should not seek the LORD’S direction, even as we prepare to leave home for our day.  Apart from communion with God—We Sin.