Proverbs 17:17 When God Says...I Say, AMEN!

When God says...

“A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.” (Proverbs 17:17 NKJV)

The Lord is giving a hint how to identify who a true friend is and how to check one’s faithfulness in friendship to another. This passage reveals that closeness in the truest sense is bound by love that stands strong in season and out of season. It's a love that weathers the test of time and defies storms brought about by the changing climate even in a deep-seated relational bond.

This also affirms that a true brother or sister is one who is birthed out of and for adversity. One who is made ready right there for and when a shoulder, to cry and lean on, is needed.

This friend, this brother, we find only in the person of Yeshua, our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ, and, in them who has Jesus the Lord of their lives. We place our faith in Jesus the first born of many brethren (Romans 8:29b). He is the only One who laid His life for us all. "There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13)." In Him, as we receive His Lordship, He declares - “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.” (John 15:15 NKJV)

And, to those who respond to do the work of God, and "believe in the one He has sent (John 6:29b)", He made this pronouncement - “And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.” (Mark 3:33-35 KJV)

And I say, AMEN!

Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries

(When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.)

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