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WHAT A FRIEND !

WHAT A FRIEND!
There are friends and there are friends. We all have friends. Friends are people other than a family member whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. A friend is an associate who provides assistance. A friend is a person who backs and supports you. A friend defends you always. A friend doesn’t desert you. A friend doesn’t scorn you. A friend is not an enemy. A friend in need is a friend indeed. A friend cares for you. A friend prays for you. All these mentioned can only be exhibited by a true friend. Most worldly friends are deceitful; they are jealous and pretend to be your friend. Job’s friends scorned him while in his circumstances, despite mourning and comforting him. Job 16 vs. 20: My friends scorn me; but mine eye poureth out tears unto GOD. Just for you to know most earthly friends are like Job’s friends. They are pretenders; they mourn with you, rejoice with you and desert you when in a difficult circumstances. Show me a true friend and I will tell you he will always stand by you come what may; show me an earthly friend and I will tell you when faced with difficulty he won’t stand by you for long. Earthly friend’s make their friendship based on condition, while a true friend makes his friendship unconditionally.

           However, Proverbs 18 vs. 24: There are “friends” who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. This verse defines a true friend and an earthly friend. Earthly friends pretend to be friends, but a true friend sticks closer than your blood brother. JESUS is the only true friend! He came and died for our sins, he said “in this world we shall face trials and temptations, but we should be of good cheers he has overcome the world”. He said cast all your cares on me for I care for them. He loved us all. What more does a person needs than a true friend. No earthly friend can do these. A hymn writer says: What a friend we have in JESUS, all our sins and grief’s to bear! What a privilege to carry everything to GOD in prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there troubled anywhere? We should never be discouraged; take it to the LORD in prayer. JESUS knows our every weakness. Can we find a friend as faithful as him? NO! Even while we were yet sinners he died for us. What a friend! We are to do whatsoever the true friend commands. John 15 vs 14: Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. It is well with us….. 
 

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