Stickers

As we noted yesterday it is very important in a modern society that is always redefining our basic concepts that we understand what we are looking for in a ‘friend.’ The writer of Proverbs gives us some great characteristics to look for. The first of these characteristics is that Friends Stick.

We all need to raise our standards for friends & never lower them! The writer of Proverbs is clear that a true friend takes on a state of permanency and commitment that is akin to that of family relations. As family members can’t ‘un-family’ you, so a true friend stays/sticks even through your most difficult times.  As the latter part of Proverbs 17:17 is translated in the Contemporary English Version—“Relatives are born to share our troubles.” 

• Prv 17:17—“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

• Proverbs 18:24—“A man of too many friends comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”

Do you have friends who have stuck over the test of time? If not pray for some.