Daily Manna: The Only Dependable Friend Sunday 28, July 2013 TEXT: JOB 6:4-30 KEY VERSE: “My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away” (Job 6:15). An English publication offered a prize for the best definition of a friend. Among the thousands of answers received were the following: “one who multiplies joys, divides grief”, “one who understands our silence”, “a volume of sympathy bound in cloth”, “a watch which beats true for all time and never runs down”. But here is the definition that won the prize: “a friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out”. This award-winning definition corroborates the definition of friendship in the Holy Writ. “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” (Proverbs 17:17). In the text under reference, Job complained of his three friends. He was glad when they first came to his side thinking they would offer him comfort in his sore distress. Instead, they began to probe into his life, to find out the secret sin which he had committed on account of the troubles that had befallen him. They held that any misfortune was always because of unconfessed sin. They felt that he was hiding some secret misdeeds which they urged him to confess. Job saw them as miserable comforters who cruelly misunderstood him. He compared them to a desert stream choked with ice and snow during winter rain, but dwindle and dry up on the first approach of summer. This foregoing is the typical example of human friendships. But how great a contrast to the love and friendship of Jesus! Not like a brook that dries up in time of drought, but like a well of water springing up within the heart forever. He does not merely give consolation and sympathy, but He is the great Comforter. He imparts Himself. His promises chase away our fears as His Spirit reminds us of the words: “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”. Nothing gives Him greater joy than to be a perfect circle of which earth’s friendship are broken arcs. Please accept Him as your Friend, Saviour and Master and discover a true friend indeed. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: In Jesus only is found a friend in need; a friend indeed.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:08:33 +0000
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