You have many friends, no doubt, but who is your best friend?
We read in the Bible about the Friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Of course, you know who this Friend is. It is the Lord Jesus Christ. Is He your best Friend?
I heard a young man who had been converted a few days before, singing with his wife and little boy,
“What a Friend we have in Jesus!”
Could you truthfully take that word “we” out, and write “I” instead—like this? —
“What a Friend I have in Jesus!”
If not, I want you to speak to the Lord Jesus; and tell Him you are going to accept Him as your own Saviour and Friend.
Boys and girls who do belong to the Lord Jesus should be very careful as to whom they make friends with. We have to be kind and courteous to everybody, but it is very sad to find young Christians choosing as their companions those who do not love the Saviour.
A certain farmer saw a lot of crows picking up the seed that he had sown in one of his fields. So he took his gun, and fired at them. All the birds flew away at once, except one that lay on the ground, wounded. The farmer went up to the wounded bird, and found to his astonishment that it was his own pet parrot that had escaped from his cage, and flown out to join the crows in the field.
Its wing was broken with the shot, and the farmer picked it up gently, saying, “Ah! Polly, this is the result of your keeping bad company.”
He put the poor parrot under his coat, and went off home. When he got near the house, his little girl ran to meet him.
“Father,” she said, “have you shot any crows?”
“I have shot Polly!” said the farmer.
“O father! however did you manage to do that?”
Before the farmer could tell his little girl how it was, the parrot put its head out from under his coat and exclaimed,
“Bad company! bad company!”
Dear young Christian, don’t keep bad company with the crows, or you will be sure to be wounded!
I mean don’t make friends of unsaved people. They will do you harm.
“I am a companion of all them that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy precepts.”
ML 12/20/1931