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2000-01-23 - Passages About Friendship
If you have one or more close friends, consider yourself truly blessed. If
you don't, ask God to send someone(s) like that into your life, and focus
on being a good friend to those around you.
God loves us through our friends, sometimes giving us a taste of His
unconditional love for us:
(Prov 17:17 NRSV) A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk
are born to share adversity.
(1 Sam 18:1 NRSV) When David had finished speaking to
Saul, the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved
him as his own soul.
He strengthens us through our friends:
(Eccl 4:9-12 NRSV) Two are better than one, because they
have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the
other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to
help. Again, if two lie together, they keep warm; but how can one keep warm
alone? And though one might prevail against another, two will withstand one.
A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
True friends are always there -- for the highest highs and the lowest
lows -- and feel each other's pains and joys:
(Rom 12:15 NRSV) Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep
with those who weep.
Real friends are honest, even when it's difficult:
(Prov 27:6 NRSV) Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts,
but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
If you desire lasting friendships, be a true friend to those you have:
(Prov 18:24 KJV) A man that hath friends must show himself
friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Jan
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