According to Aristotle, “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.” That’s a pretty good return for one friendship, but I guess it depends on who the friend is. But consider that the Bible also states that having a large number of friends—having groupies–doesn’t necessarily make life better. Proverbs 18:24 explains this: “The man of many friends [a friend of all the world] will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” (Amplified Bible). Apparently, it isn’t the quantity of friends that can make a difference for us; it is the quality of that one friend. Again, much depends on who the friend is. Imagine. Let’s imagine that we had a friend who was one of the most influential people in the world, who had more money than we could imagine, who had more power than we’ve ever heard of, and who had more favor than we could possibly envision—and that this friend, this best friend, saw us as so much better than we had ever seen ourselves—would any of that make an impact? I would think that having a best friend like that would degenerate and dissolve any threat that even fifty enemies held. Those enemies’ power of intimidation would no longer carry weight against us—because we had a friend who was immeasurable in power, influence, and support. Life would now no longer be limited to how much or little we deserved; life would be enlarged by the favor our best friend generously poured out on our behalf. I would think that the reality of such a friendship would change how we looked at life and how we lived life. Having such a friend would surely shift our confidence level and give us audacious boldness because we would be so sure of such a strong, stable, securing relationship. But we have such a friend, the same friend that Peter and John had: “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus” (Acts 4:13). When we hang around with our best friend Jesus, who He is hangs around on us. We walk with the residue of that relationship. And we make a noticeable difference to those we pass. So today, when we boldly run into the throne of grace for mercy in our time of need, maybe running from fifty enemies, who are we going to hang out with? I would suggest that today is a good day to know our best friend even better. Picture from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_room If you like this post please share. restlesschipotle/lindahoyer/2013/09/17/throne-room-friend/
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:26:13 +0000
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