You Need Friends | You Can't Do This Life Alone: Friendship Series

Deep down, we all desire friends.

even if we've been hurt, because that's how God wired us.

He wired us for connection.

Genesis 2.18 says, Now, this is in context of marriage, but this is also true in life.

We're not designed to be isolated from other people.

God designed us to have friendships with him and also to have friendships with others.

Look at Jesus.

He had 12 disciples who were in his friend group, so to speak.

But in his inner circle, he had three who were closest to him.

If the Son of God saw that there was a need for friends and not to be isolated, we need to realize that we have a need for friends.

and not to isolate ourselves.

So here's this question again.

If friendships are so important, why is it so hard to make friends? Why is this one of the biggest struggles that we will have in life? Honestly, it's because it involves other people, and other people have free wills, and sometimes they do things that hurt us.

Have you ever thought to yourself, I'm surrounded by so many people yet I feel so alone.

Like nobody really knows me.

This was me growing up.

I had a group of about five friends and we were always together.

From the time I was in kindergarten all the way through college and it never went past surface level.

None of them ever actually took time to get to know me.

Or have you ever thought everyone has their own group? They don't need me.

They don't accept me.

This actually happened to a teen I know just recently.

He was telling me that he tried out a new church and he was trying to talk to people, but they all had their own groups and nobody would really engage in conversation with him.

That's hard.

Or have you ever told anyone or maybe even believed it yourself? I don't need anybody.