Good Morning Friends,
“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens
another.” (Proverbs 27:17)
True friends make each other better.
It’s not always an easy and comfortable
process. Sharpening a knife requires friction against the instrument being used
to do the sharpening. Often the process of helping someone be better requires
friction, too. But in that friction with someone that truly loves us, we are
challenged and encouraged to be a better person.
It’s not true friendship if we allow each
other to go through life with rough spots that are ignored. The balance to that
is that a true friend doesn’t constantly criticize and nit-pick, either. As we
have opportunity and with sensitivity as to timing and method, true friends
help each other to smooth out the rough spots in our lives.
The goal, then, is to be a true friend to
others. It is to find ways to encourage and challenge those you really care
about to develop a little at a time into the kind of person God desires them to
be. Do it with kindness, sensitivity and love.
The second goal is to allow others to be true
friends to you. To respond well to the help they provide to make you a better
person, even when it is painful.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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