How much we need true friendship in this world! But how little of it is to be found!
Friendship needs to be shown most of all in the day of adversity, when the clouds are heavy and there is none to help. How often under such circumstances are our earthly expectations blasted! There is One who exactly meets this great need of humanity, one who is a Friend for adversity, one that "sticketh closer than a brother"—Jesus, the true Friend.
"Doctor, what shall I do?" asked a patient.
"My friends are all out of town.”
He said, "You may have one Friend who is never away but ever near and ever true. Jesus is the best friend for earth or heaven.”
The last words of one great man when he came to die were, after bidding his friends good-by, "Now where is Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never-failing Friend?" and so saying, he fell asleep. Reader, do you know Jesus as your Friend? Make him so by true and living faith. He will never fail you.
"BEHOLD, I STAND AT
THE DOOR, AND KNOCK:
IF ANY MAN HEAR MY
VOICE, AND OPEN THE
DOOR, I WILL COME IN
TO HIM, AND WILL
SUP WITH HIM,
AND HE WITH ME.”