"I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you. The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them. And you are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father. You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name. This, then, is what I command you: love one another."

John 15:11-17

Apart from eating, sleeping, doing necessary tasks, and earning a living, how are we spending that precious commodity we call time? Whatever else we are doing, are we giving time to relationships. Do you invest your time wisely in building a relationship with Jesus, and with your friends? Or do you throw time away, as if it did not matter.

Our Daily Bread – August 13, 2001