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You really
know who your friends are when your life isn’t going well. We are all familiar with the people who want
to be our friends when we have something to offer. If you’ve ever won something enviable, you
know this feeling. But that isn’t a true
display of friendship. Genuine
friendship are people who are with you regardless of your situation. They are there in the good times. They remain there in the bad times.
For example,
take a look at Lot. He gets caught up in
a war between the people living in and around Canaan. He is defeated and taken captive. His stuff is taken as plunder. He’s a foreigner living in a foreign
land. He doesn’t have a family clan to
defend him. But he does have
Abraham. Abraham is a true friend. Abraham comes to his defense, rescuing him
from the hands of those who captured him.
However, it
is often true that a friend of a friend is also a friend. Notice that Abraham isn’t alone in coming to
Lot’s aid. Some of Abraham’s allies go
with him to rescue Lot. Lot is the
beneficiary of Abraham’s friendships, too.
It is
important to have friends. We all like
to have people to celebrate with us when things are good. But we all also need people to be there for
us when we need rescued. We need people
to remind us about joy and peace when life conspires against.
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