Proverbs 27:9 When God Says...I Say, AMEN!

When God Says …

“Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: So doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.” (Proverbs 27:9 KJV)

This is such a very reassuring reminder that a hearty counsel of a friend is indeed like the soothing sweetness of ointment and perfume. It brings pleasure to an aching heart. Friends are blessings both in times of need and ease. They bring comfort during stormy seasons of life and their presence in times of celebration lifts one’s heart higher. Their counsels are fragrant aroma in a room filled with musty smell of burden. The scent of their presence lifts the blanket of smoke in a murky air of trouble.

Yes, the mere presence of friends matter, like the three friends of Job during his time of torment. “When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.”(Job 2:11-13 NIV)

And, we have such a better friend in our Lord Jesus Christ who loves us. He gave His life on the cross for us. As we receive His Lordship in our heart, by grace through faith in Him, He assures us with this refreshing declaration: “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. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.” (John 15:15-16 ESV)

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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