Healthy Friendships: The Process of Becoming

The sum of a person is not all you see.  In fact, the exterior is generally not the best indicator of what is deep down within us.  Unfortunately, many are underestimated, judged, and even forsaken because of what is seen.  It's not really about how you look, it just how your actions and your living is interpreted by those watching.  People who you have not become one in spirit with, like David and Jonathan, generally only see your exterior.  It's unfortunate, but they cannot perceive what God has placed within you.  For David, his own family could not see who God had made him to be, but Jonathan saw it immediately.  How is this possible for someone to hardly know him and yet, completely get God's plan for him?  Thankfully, David would have a friend in Jonathan who did not limit him with personal expectations, but anticipated God's will in David's life.