I have heard most of my life that you can usually count your true friends on just one hand. If you have more than one hand of true friends, you are truly blessed. I am truly blessed.
I have friends that are true blue, never failing, constantly encouraging and helping me to grow and learn. "How many," you ask? I couldn't possibly count them all. Don't take that I am bragging, I'm not. I just know how truly blessed I am to have so many true, solid friends. Friends who love me and accept me and pray for me and with me - true friends.
Today's word is Romans 12:10 from The Message, which reads, "Be good friends who love deeply."
There is so much power in those six words. Be good friends. We all have or have had those friends that the saying, "With friends like that who needs enemies," was developed for. But, we need, and we need to be GOOD FRIENDS. We need to be the type friend to our friends that we want them to be to us. And, how do we do that? I am glad you asked.
The answer is the last part of today's passage, "...who love deeply." The more you love someone, the more you care about someone, the more you appreciate someone, the better you treat them. Yeah, being a friend also means we have to overlook each other when we treat each other rudely, but, then, we need to use that love to reconcile and strengthen the friendship. Be GOOD friends who love deeply.
Be Blessed,
Mickey T
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