Faithful friends

Thanks be to God for our friendships, those relationships that lift us up and help us remember what it looks like to follow our LORD's truths!!! Do you have at least one friend with whom you can look in the eye and allow them to see, really see, into your eyes? Do you let this person
know who you really are? This would be someone you're not hooded with but one who draws you out of hiding. Do YOU realize what a rare gift this might be for you? If you have such joy in your life already, does He/SHE know how much you treasure their deep commitment to you? This friend may not agree with everything you say or do, but he/she will often still come along side, and that takes the deepest devotion and love between two people. I have found these are the hands that reach over with His strength and pull us back onto the narrow road. These are the friendships which God carefully constructs to meet us, "...at such a time as this." (Esther 4:14)

It's been my prayer throughout the years that He would send someone along side me, and He faithfully brought certain people in and out of my life ~ umbrellas over me ~ watching and interceding when they were needed. And He faithfully has again sent three friends through which He works. These sweet friendships with other strong believers feel different; there is a kinship, a nurturing that is the fragrance of Christ (2 Cor.2:15), and I find I long for their influence.

Yes, it takes time and effort and TRUST (!) to develop this kind of love, but it reverbertes in your heart like no other. I hope you have someone, a friend with whom you can depend. I pray
God is bringing someone closer to you and onto your pathway... right now.