Friends

Good Morning,

Proverbs 17:17 (NIV)
A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24 (NKJV)
A man who has friends must himself be friendly,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
John 15:13 (NIV)
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."

I'm not going to write a devotional about friends or friendship today. We won't explore what a friend is or is not. I think that we know what friend truly is, anyway, and we don't need to belabor the point.

No, none of that today.

What I'm going to do, however, is to ask you a couple of questions that have been asked of me in my mind this morning. And, I'm going to ask you to be 100% truthful in your answers...both to yourself and to God. Then, what you do with your answers is strictly between you and the Lord. So...

What kind of friend are you? How do you treat your friends? What do your friends mean to you? Who, exactly ARE your friends? Are your friends important to you?

That's it today. Answers a bit tough, perhaps? You know, sometimes God asks us the tough questions. Sometimes He wants us to do something about our answers.

Now, nobody will ever know if you have, or have not, done this little exercise. Well, nobody but you and the Lord. However, if, perhaps, you haven't loved your answers to these questions...and maybe the answers to some others that have popped into your mind as you thought about this...then you will know that something needs to be done.

Here's the deal on this...If you do what God tells you to do, believe me, you will notice, your friends will notice, and most importantly, God will notice.

Love, peace, and blessings,

David