Everyone needs friends! Sometimes friends can disappoint each other and get on one anothers nerves, but in the end true friends get over it and the friendship becomes stronger having survived various problems. This month marks the 50th year of a friendship of mine. We met when I was 6 & he was 7, played together laughed, cried, got in trouble together.
   Even a friendship as strong as ours is dwarfed by the company of the Holy Spirit. "A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Proverbs18:24. For those of us who have accepted Christ Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, we have the Holy Spirits' presence to guide and comfort us until Jesus returns. "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John 14:26.  Not only do believers have the Holy Spirit to guide and comfort, did you know that we are also considered as "friends" by Jesus Christ himself? " you are my friends, if you do what I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made know to you." John 15:14 & 15.
   How cool is that? To be considered "friends" with the Saviour of all mankind! Praise God from whom
all blessings flow!!