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of the friendship the David and Jonathan experienced with each other as David is now lamenting

over Jonathan's death. And he says, I'm distressed for you, my brother.

Very pleasant have you been to me. Your love to me was extraordinary. Think about the way first

Samuel described the love and friendship that David and Jonathan experienced. They loved one

other as their own souls. And here's a picture in the Bible of friendship that

transcends family. So David and Jonathan obviously in different families and in families,

the because of Saul's antipathy toward David, their families were against each other. And yet

there was a bond between them that was deeper than family. And the way that David even

right here says, we were my brother, Jonathan. And your love to me was extraordinary. The way this

friendship played out in their commitment to each other and they're protecting each other. And

they're looking out for each other. And as I read this, I just think about the need we all have

for friendships that are like family that are close and that are marked by extraordinary love

for one another. The kind of love that cares for someone else like your own soul. And so I just

want to lead us to pray for friendships like this in our lives and for us to be friends like this

for God to provide friends for us like this that we might experience the pleasantness to use the

word here from verse 26 of friendship according to God's good design in this world, specifically in

all the more so between brothers and sisters in Christ. God, we pause today to thank you for the

gift of friendship. God, even as I say that, I don't know every single person who's listening to

this and the specific experiences they have had God for good friends that come to our mind right now.

God, we thank you. We praise you for good friends who's love to us and our love for them

whose love to us has been extraordinary for the pleasantness that is found in close friendship.

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