Who Is Your Friend?
“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.” John 15:15
Who is a friend? According to one definition, ‘A friend is one to whom we may pour out the contents of our hearts, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away!’
In a world besieged by strained and broken relationships, how many real friends do you have? Yet, friendship is not is not merely wished into reality. Real valuable friendships take work as well as risk.
Friendship begins as you reach out to someone else. Proverbs 18:24 says, “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly…”
Even though David was the anointed one, yet he needed the friendship of Jonathan to escape the clutches of Saul who wanted to kill him. Philip was the one Jesus called, but Philip called his friend Nathaniel, saying, come and see, we have found him who Moses and the prophets wrote about.
If you look well, there is a person who shares your interests, your thoughts and ideas, and is hurting for a friend as badly as you are. You don’t have to be from the same social background, generation or culture to cultivate a healthy friendship, you only need to be a friend.
“As Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend” Proverbs 27:17