Real Friends

In Spite of How Many Friends You Claim On Your Face book Page!
by Samuel Lee Frank on Friday, July 15, 2011 at 6:06pm.

Bad human relationships as well as the good ones are equally based on the actions and interactions of our human perception and nature. In this they are limited at best. We can only be so much and do so much for each other. Proverbs 18:24 says that if we want friends we must be a friend. Also a true friend is closer that a member of your own family.

There are 3 patterns of a true friend.

1.A friend is present to me physically. He makes a great effort to stay in touch. Even long distance. Social networking and cell phones make that easy.

2.A friend is present to me emotionally. Proverbs 18:24 Your friends will love you at all times (unconditionally) It is a mistake, however to say or think that a friend will ACCEPT you as you are. One mark of a true friend is that, while he is present to my weakness and failures, he holds me to a higher standard. A friend knows the best I could be and INSISTS that I get there and ASSISTS me in doing so.

3. Our friends are present to us spiritually. They are aware that there will be an eternal relationship as well as an earthly one. They pray for me. They hold me before God when I cannot stand on my own.

This is a wonder in the Kingdom. Jesus said that in Heaven, earthly relationships would be dissolved and consumed into a greater and holier relationship with each other and God. "We will "be as the angels." Matt. 24:38 This is the only way I could live in eternity with a bad relationship from this world. There are those in this world that get on my very last nerve. There are even those I do not need to see at all in this life and I know for a fact that there are those who feel the same way about me. But I cannot think of ONE human soul that I wish to be in Hell!

I wondered about this mystery and I believe God showed me this in a "vision" or dream or something.

Bear with me in my folly....

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