Special Friends

How many friends do you have?  I’ll wait until you count them. Okay? If you have a good number I have some questions.  If you were to one day have a conversation with one or all of them and you had a different opinion and it became a bit heated. Maybe you wanted to win no matter what. Would they still by your friend?  How about you had a call from them asking for your help and you said, “sorry I’m busy”. Would they say okay and not call you again for a while?

If you have a small number of friends it might get the same results, right? Maybe not? But if you have just a few, you might be able to say you have been friends for quite a while. You see, we usually work through all those relationships dimensions and work out the dynamics of friendship. We are well versed on what it takes, on both sides of the equation. Remember the line: “The only way to have a friend is to be one”. We also know, it doesn’t always work out perfect, but the smaller the group of friends the easier it is to be there for the others. And that is what seems to work.

Maybe our definition dictates who our friends are and what it takes to have them and them us. Friends are there for each other. They are willing to put aside everything just to be with the friend who needs you. And you can call on your friends to be there for you. That you can take to the bank.

More than all those other friends, we have one friend who outshines all the others. That friend will never leave us nor forsake us. We can even sing about it. “What a friend we have in Jesus . . . 

Can we find a friend so faithful

Who will all our sorrows share?

Jesus knows our every weakness

Take it to the Lord in prayer

Something to think about

Rob