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What a Friend We Have in Jesus

6/1/2016

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A few weeks ago I asked my youth group to list qualities they want in a close friend.  I then asked them to rate their friends on how well they met the listed qualities. Many of them rated their friends fairly high and I exclaimed, “That’s great! Seems like you all have some pretty good friends.”  Then I turned the table on them and asked them to rate themselves as to how well they met the listed qualities when being a friend.  As they reflected on their own abilities to be good friends, the sad reality was that they did not feel as though they were as kind and capable as their own friends.

Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up. Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one be warm alone? Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” Jesus is that third cord that strengthens a friendship and keeps it bonded when one is fallen, alone, or feels overpowered by life.

The absolute best example and standard of our greatest Friend ever is found in John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”  It is an admonition for us to consider Jesus in our friendships and to be others-centered even if it means a sacrifice of time, resources, or ourselves.

May our prayer be, to be the best friend to our friends with Jesus as our bond and third cord.

-Brian Lee

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The greatness of the Jesus is reported and booked in all books of the world. The holy scripts are led by the Jesus. He is amazing creature of the god for the humanity. Mankind is thriving upon the ambit and service for the calculation for the range of the support and mechanism for the individuals.

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4/1/2020 08:44:39 pm

Some are not just being open to God, that's why they cannot see or consider God as their friend. When no one is there for you, He will always be there for you to guide with every step that you want to take. I am indeed happy to know that more people are choosing the right path this time. We should do it more often because it could be our ways on how we can deal with such thing. God will always be there for people who believe in him!

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