Words of Encouragement

 

October - 14 - 2007

 

Who are your closest friends? Good friends are hard to come by in a world of superficial acquaintances and shallow relationships. "Hanging with the crowd" can give us a false sense of belonging, but often leaves us wounded and alone in times of trouble. Open, honest, supportive, and loving relationships don't happen without investment. Ask the Lord to lead you to close friends in His family. Minister to and serve those around you. Listen to their requests, faithfully upholding them in prayer. Spend time in Christian service with other servant believers. Join yourself to a Bible study. As you do, trust that God will give you that "stick-through-thick-and-thin-friend." Companions are easy to find, but can be unreliable. Development of Christian friends is an investment of effort and time, but they are friends with whom we will share forever.

Let us read Proverbs 18:24.

A man who has friends must
   himself be friendly,
But there is a friend who sticks
  closer than a brother.

Let us go to our heavenly Father in prayer.

Precious God, we thank you for our friends. Please, dear Father, lead us into the life of someone this week who need us to be his or her friend. Be with us Lord that we may help them in some way. Most importantly, Lord, thank you so much for our greatest friend, Jesus.

In whose name we pray.

Amen.

 

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