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| “The righteous choose their friends carefully…” |
| —Proverbs 12:26a |
“Who are your true and faithful friends?”
In this increasingly self-centered society, deep, trustworthy, consistent, faithful friends are much harder to come by than we might suppose they are.
Do you have someone in your life whom you can trust to always have your best interests at heart? Someone who places your interests above their own? Someone with whom you can share your most intimate secrets, your doubts, your fears? Someone who will celebrate your joys and weep over your sorrows?
If you do have such a person, you are uniquely blessed. Such a one is a precious gift from God.
King Solomon recognized the great value of such a faithful and devoted friend when he wrote these words in Proverbs 12:26:
The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
We need to choose our friends very carefully—the ones we trust with our minds and hearts. When God brings someone into our lives with like precious faith, someone we can trust, someone who loves us with a God-breathed (agape) love, we need to receive such a one as the gift he or she truly is.
This new day let us cling tightly to those who are our true and faithful friends. Let us recognize with joy that such friends are a precious gift from God and be thankful.
