William Ward said, "A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities."
How wonderful to know such a great friend as this. I had the pleasure of having lunch with such a friend today and receiving a wonderful message from another. I am indeed blessed beyond measure...but while either would take a call in the middle of the night if I needed them, there is one that is closer than a brother, who encourages our heart when we feel "no one could fully understand" and knows our inmost being so well that when "we do not know how to pray as we should, the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words." (Romans 8:26)
As we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, let it awake in us a desire to know this true friend as He knows us that others may see Him in us and come to know such great love as this...and let us be inspired to be a "true friend" to others.
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