Welcome to "Victorious Daily Devotion" in the most amazing and loving name of Jesus Christ! 🙋‍♀️💐💐💐

Topic: Friendship Day! Who Is Our Greatest Friend?

Happy 😊 And sweet friendship day to all! Sweet because true friends are like sweetners adding spice to our lives. True friends brightens our days with kind, warm and encouraging words, actions, gestures and smiles. These friends hold our hands tight when things are tough and bring us the courage we need to carry on when things are rough. These true friends stand 🧍‍♂️ with you in the tough and dark times and come out as light in the darkness.

They refresh you and bless you.

A true friend inspires us to seek God, and they see that you rise and flourish..

Someone last year enquired with me as why peopke call as 'true friends'? Are there true, bad and fake friends too?

The answer is 100% yes. There are true genuine friends as well as bad and toxic friends. We need to seek God's wisdom to chose.

If your association is with bad or worldly friends, they will lead you down in life and dent your character too in bad things. There is a saying, "Bad company corrupts good character."

There are toxic friends too we must be aware. They are never helpful but take take take from you and leave you once you are down and dry. They only catch people from whom they get help and leave them once they are òdown and work is over. And they also ensure and make efforts to cause your downfall secretly and envy your rise. We need to identify and be careful and wise with such toxic people who come as friends.

But I would say with all smiles 😃 there is no truer friend than Jesus. He is the one who knows even our thoughts, our heart, our success....

He also knows our failures, our weaknesses, our shortcomings, our falls, our disappointments our dejection and even times of our obscurity.

Unlike the friendship in this world Jesus our greatest friend will never leave us when people leave us, He will never leave us when we face failures and anandoned. But He will be with us and guide us to safety, progress and encouragement.

C S. Lewis said, "As followers of Christ, our friendships are founded in Christ." Jesus said in *John 15: 14:*

*Ye are my friends, if Ye do whatsoever I command you.*

Let us understand! Only when you give give give you are a friend and not take take take and hold back without giving especially when you can and it's in your capacity.

In history, Is there any friend on this earth who gave his or her life for someone? No one except Jesus Christ. He gave His best, He lay down His life and become our friend and Saviour.

Familiar Song, "What a friend we have in Jesus, all our things and griefs to bear, wat a privilege to carry, everything to Lord in prayer.

Ty Lord for being with us and loving us as a friend, knowing our shortcomings and failures.... Thou as a friend become not only our help in times of need but also may you be our shied, refuge and fortress....

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God bless! 🙋🏻‍♂️💐💐💐

Benedict James.

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