Bible Reading: Proverbs 17
Key Verse: Verse 17 - “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
Key Words: A friend loveth at all times
Proverbs chapter seventeen deals with the
subject of contentment. We see in verses
one through five that Solomon deals with contentment from possessions. In verses six through ten, he deals with
contentment from having right priorities.
In verses eleven through twenty-one, he talks about being content with
people, and sometimes being content in spite of people. Then in verses twenty-two through
twenty-eight, he talks about contentment that comes from being prudent.
But in verse seventeen, Solomon touches on being
content in our friendships when he says “A friend loveth at all times.” A real key to loving someone is in really
being their friend,. Let me explain.
On July 29, 1981, Britain’s Prince Charles
married Lady Di in a grand royal wedding.
The glamorous wedding was a “fairy tale comes true” for both Prince
Charles and Lady Di, or at least that’s what we were led to believe. For their wedding London was a city dressed
like a large stage. City busses were
painted the color of the wedding. There
wee 4,000 pots of flowers tht lined the wedding route of Lady Di. All the flowers were, there again, the color
of her wedding.
That day it is said tht three million people
lined the streets of London to get a glimpse of Lady Di. The wedding was carried live on television in
seventy-five countries. Approximately
one billion people watched the wedding.
It was indeed a glamorous wedding, but
unfortunately, it wasn’t a glamorous marriage.
Fifteen years and one month after Prince Charles and Lady Di said “I do,” they were divorced. Someone asked Prince Charles why the marriage failed. His answer was, to say the least, shocking. He said, “Lady Di and I were lovers and admired each other, but we were never friends.” Oh!! The Word of God is so true. “A friend loveth at all times.”
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞Remember, a friendship
that can’t endure trials can’t be trusted.
✞Don’t just marry a
lover, make sure you’re friends.
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