One of God’s ‘Go-To People’
In English, we label trusted friends as ‘Go-To People’ – the people that you turn to first
when you need help. They are people with caring hearts full of wisdom. A question I
wrestle with at times though, is where does everybody go when people are in desperate
need of God? Who are those people that immediately stand out as true, deep followers of
Jesus? I have a suspicion that they are ordinary people who quietly follow the way of God
without pretence or show. These faithful friends are filled with character; people for
whom ‘Yes means Yes;’ people that follow through on their word. Jesus describes these
people in Matthew 25 as being those who hand out cold water, carrying the broken, all in
the Name of God. It will be those who do not constantly judge or discard others, but
rather serve them, walking the extra mile with those who do not deserve it. God's ‘Go-To
People’ are quiet souls who draw others to the heart of God, a ‘living magnet’ of sorts.
These are the kind of people that model how to live with God in intimacy simply through
the daily example of their life’s behaviour. These are the kind of leaders worth following.