Dear Friend,
I am writing this letter to you specifically. Although we have never been what the world considers best friends or BFFs, I still consider you a dear and close friend. I have prayed for you often just as I have prayed for your children and your spouse.
Times will often be difficult. It will sometimes seem as though friends do not understand or they are so far from you, but I want you to know that you are only a prayer away from me.
We share almost nothing in common except that we live on planet Earth and one other important thing. We are one IN CHRIST. We share the Saviour and in that one thing we are united. If you hurt, THE HOLY SPIRIT is there to bring that hurt to me so that I may pray for you. While I seldom will know the true reason for the prayer, THE SPIRIT has lead me to pray for you. It may be a simple temptation of an extra doughnut hole or it may be a much bigger temptation to not read or study THE SCRIPTURES or a temptation of jealousy or lust. THE HOLY SPIRIT knows as does GOD and that is all that is truly important.
You may be in the midst of great persecution and fear for your life if someone finds out that you, indeed, are a Christian. It may be the temptation to leave your BIBLE at home rather than take it to work with you and read during lunch. It may be an unfaithful or brutal spouse that beats you in a drunken rage.
Whatever your trial, tribulation or temptation, you are truly NEVER alone. While I cannot be there to lift you up, please, dear Friend in CHRIST, know that HE will never leave you nor forsake you and HE has sent THE COMFORTER to be with you through to the end. Please, fear not man who can torture and kill the body, but fear HIM who has control over the soul and that ONE is JEHOVAH GOD, YHWH.
Be of good cheer and embrace the PEACE that transcends all understanding. HE is with you always and forever. Do not dwell on the issues at hand, dwell upon the GLORY that you will soon see. Our time is but a vapor, a wisp of wind in time. We rejoice in an Eternity with the CREATOR, ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, our SALVATION.
Shalom. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
Always in CHRIST,
your friend