Archive for July 2020

Psa. 25:14 The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant. It had been years since we left high school, and I had a ton of questions for her.  Firstly, I wanted to know what had become of her best friend, the one who seemed…

Pro. 13:20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. I spent most of my adolescence and young adulthood trying to turn myself into something.  Without a clear identity of my own, my search for friends was about more than companionship.  I was looking for people who could…

Pro. 16:27-28 A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. She was one of the most unassuming people in the group.  If anyone had a doctrinal question or needed scripture explained, she always seemed to have the answer.  She…

James 4:2-4 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship…

John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. We were only kids.  Our parents taught us how to treat people correctly, but…

John 15:12-13 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. I had been saved only a short time, and God was working hard at cleaning out my life.  A minor traffic stop would…

Psa. 98:5-9 Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody! With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord! Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it! Let the rivers…

Psa. 94:12-15 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; for justice will return to the…

Psa. 17:1-3 Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right! You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing;…