Sep 29.97: Light For The Day - "To My Friend"

* A true friend will not let you stand alone. - Anon.

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"To My Friend"

I'd like to be the kind of friend
That you have been to me;
I'd like to be the special help
That you have been glad to be.

I know I'm blessed for only God
Can make a friend like you;
You know just how to cheer me up
When I feel blue.

Could I but have one wish fulfilled,
This one only would be
I'd like to be the kind of Friend
You're always been to me.

- Unknown (Anon.)
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Proverb 17:17 (RSV): 
"A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity."

"Friends always show their love. 
What are relatives for if not to share trouble?
- (TEV-Today English Version)
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Proverb 18:24 (RSV): "There are friends who
pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who
sticks closer than a brother."

John 15:13 (RSV): "Greater love has no man
than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 

"You are my friends if you do what I command you."
- John 15:14 (RSV)
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What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer! 
- Joseph Scriven

Even if we have been blessed with deeply enriching
friendships, we all need Jesus' friendship. But before
we can know Jesus as our Friend, we must know Him 
as our Savior. Then, through all of our changing
circumstances, He will be the One we can depend on
-- our unfailing Friend. 
- Vernon C. Grounds
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Christ's friendship prevails even when
human friendship fails. - Anon.-
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