The miracle is to make a friend who will stand by you when millions are against you.” “Making a million friends is not a miracle. “Friendship is like a brilliant star which shines brighter when the sky turns darker.” “Friendship is a majestic garden full of roses, butterflies and bees, supporting each other for the sake of survival and realizing dreams.” Here are a few that I particularly liked What does friendship mean to you? That was the question Reader’s digest once asked some of their fans and the responses were creative. But when we have a friend who has made a bad decision in their life or a friend who has clearly wronged us and let us down, what then? Are we to keep on loving them like nothing ever happened and remain neutral or free of judgement? God forbid! The book of Proverbs also speaks to the “faithfulness” and “sweetness” of the friend who brings wise counsel and offers correction for their friend’s folly. That means that friendship has big similarity to a godly marriage or the parent/child relationship, in the fact that we are to love our friend unconditionally through the high times and the low, regardless of circumstances and outcomes. To love someone at all times is a high standard for someone to qualify as a friend. Some of us literally have hundreds of online friends, but how many of these would meet the definition found in these Bible verses about friendship? Most of us are blessed to have a half dozen or so really close friends, but all too often these days a lot of us get caught up in the social media aspect of “friendship” which is measured by quantity over quality. You don’t have to live long on this earth (maybe not even past grade school) to experience the varying degrees of friendship.
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