If Jesus, Why Not Me?

Since high school and maybe even before that, one of the most popular topics people, including me, chose to discuss, was how “untrue” their friends are. “She stabbed me in the back, they threw me under the bus, he cheated, etc etc.” A lot of conversations, arguments, and status updates have in some way addressed this issue. But now, as a 25 year old, I have grown tired of hearing about the lack of “true friends”, especially by people my age and older.
You’d think the Son of God would want his friends to be the holiest of holy. Preachers, teachers, Rabbi’s etc etc, but that’s not who He wanted. The disciples were everyday people, fishermen, political activists, even tax collectors. For example, when Jesus called Levi (Mark 2:13-17) he was sitting at a tax collector booth. Later, Jesus even went to Levi’s house for dinner and among the dinner guests were tax collectors and “sinners.” When the Pharisees or as I like to refer to them “The Original Haters”, saw this they questioned Jesus. And to this He responded “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (v17)
Now what does this all have to do with “true” friends? Jesus did not look at Levi and say I don’t like what you do, or who you associate with so you cannot follow me. In fact, Jesus’ friends weren’t perfect at all. They denied him (Mark 14:68), betrayed him (Mark14:45) and at times didn’t fully trust in him (Matt 14:30-31), yet he still loved them anyways. So as Christians aka people striving to be “Christ-like,” what would make us think that we are better that Him, that we should cast those who seem “unworthy” of our friendship aside? Maybe, just maybe, you were placed in that person’s life to show them how to be a true friend, not to scold and talk about them for not being one. Try being a doctor to the sick, instead of only associating with the healthy.