Testimony of a Friend

As I’ve thought about this past year, my heart is full of gratitude for the times and the ways I have felt the Spirit of the Lord in my life.

I remember a time some years ago that I consider to be the lowest point in my life. It was a time I felt very alone, like I had no where to turn, when there was no arm of flesh upon which I could rely. In the depths of that experience I learned that I did have a true friend, and it was the Savior. I knew that He truly knew me, that He understood, and that He would succor me. And I knew from that day on that no matter what happened to me in life, I would always have a friend in Jesus.

Well, things have happened in my life, and I’ve reflected on the times and ways that I have felt His friendship.

It is a wondrous thing to have a God who can read our very thoughts, who can discern the desires of our hearts, and who responds to them in particular and tender ways.

I am grateful for the times in my life that I have felt His arms around me, for the times that I have wept at His feet, for the times that He has come to my rescue and saved me, and for the times that I have opened the door to find Him just right there. I have learned that He is always just right there, though most of the time we don’t know it. But we can know it.

From the beginning of time, when He stood up for us in the Grand Council in Heaven, and for ever after He is our Advocate at the Judgment Bar, He has always been and will always be our very best Friend.


It is good to remember that we can be His friend too, as we seek fellowship with Him, as we value all he does for us, as we follow in His footsteps, as we help Him in His great work of salvation.


I have no words to thank Him for His tender mercies, only to testify of Him, of a true and living God who is nearer than we know and always our truest friend, for I have heard His voice, I have felt His touch, I have experienced the power of His love in my life.


Of this I testify. Of this I know.