160. How Do I Make Good Quality Friends?

This month on the UncommonTEEN Podcast, we are diving into the friendship of David and Jonathan. They had a friendship that was different from most friendships. It was a friendship of trust, loyalty, and honor. 

We can read about this friendship in 1 Samuel. In 1 Samuel 17, we see David, this teenage boy who nobody saw as anything special, rise when everyone else was scared and defeat Goliath. After defeating Goliath, King Saul looked at David and was blown away and went to talk to David. This is where 1 Samuel 18 picks up. 

1 Samuel 18:1. It says, “As soon as David had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan (this is Saul’s son) was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”

 In other words, Jonathan saw that there was something different about David and he knew that he was someone that he wanted to have in his corner fighting for him. 

Verse 2, “And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt. And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

Think about this: David was just a shepherd boy. There was nothing special about him. His dad didn’t even consider him as someone important, but God did. Culturally speaking, he was a nobody, and now you have the King’s son, Jonathan, who is royalty wanting to be David’s friend. Their social status meant nothing to them. 

When those verses say that Jonathan gave David his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, and his belt, that was a sign from Jonathan that he would be loyal in their friendship. And Jonathan was, even when King Saul was jealous of David and tried to kill him multiple times. 

Jonathan was a loyal friend until his death. David was also a loyal friend to J

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