“Have you figured out the meaning of life yet,” is one of the 12 questions a centenarian is asked. (The New Zealand Herald, Tuesday, May 28, 2019, “12 Questions”)

Another of the 12 questions is, “You are now 102. What is the hardest thing about getting old?” And the answer given is, “Losing all your friends.”

Reading that reminds me of my best friend, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ says in John 15:14, “You are my friends if you do what I command.”

Picture / Alan Collingwood

And here are some more divine commands of Christ:

1. Matthew 28:20: “The Great Commission”
2. John 13:34: About love
3. John 14:15: “‘If you love me, you will obey what I command.'”
4. John 14:21: What a promise. Please read it.
5. John 15:10: Another promise.
6. John 15:14: Mentioned already.
7. Acts 10:42: “He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead.”
8. 1 John 3:23: “And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.”

And I surely do not need to tell you that the Lord Jesus Christ is a friend you never lose.

And no, the centenarian who is now 102, says, that he has not figured out the meaning of life, although having been brought up in the Anglican Church faith and attending church regularly. He has given up going to church and does not believe in God, but considers himself spiritual.