ARE YOU A TRUE FRIEND?

- August 09, 2021

Proverbs 20:6

Many will say they are loyal friends, but who can find one who is truly reliable?

Proverbs 18:24

A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Keeping friends is a necessity, yet betrayal still exists. Enemies, most times are born from friends.

Things do come up, issues arise, you wonder if you should make it known or be silent.

If you do have to say it, you wonder to whom, how, when and how much.

It has its good and bad sides.

Depending on who you let it out to. Some could be of great help, others could take advantage and bring pain.

2Samuel 22:31

As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven; he is a shield to all who trust in Him.

There is no friend like Jesus - He is God revealed to man, He should always be first in our life. Never let man take the place of God.

John 15:15

I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

Yes man is not like God, yet man is not excused from being faithful.

We wonder in this day and time, if we still have people we could trust, confidants that we can confide in and be rest assured that we would not be betrayed.

Can we even find them in the midst of the brethren?

Truely in these last days traitors would abound

2Timothy 3:1 & 4

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:

*traitors*, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

The question is, are we also caught in this web?

Am I a true friend?

Proverbs 27:17

As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

* Am I leading my friends to eternal life?

* Do I want to see them prosper?

* Do I tell them the truth?

* Do I pray for them?

* Can they confide in me?

* Do we forgive?

* Do we help each other?

* Do we give?

Psalm 15:3

He who does not backbite with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend;

May we be the light we are called to be. Although offences would come, may it not be from us.

Luke 17:1

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe [unto him], through whom they come!