Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
Psalm 85:10
“Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.”
“Love and Faithfulness of Friends”
One of retirement’s benefits for me is meeting up with old friends in various places. A friend is one of the most valuable treasures anyone can have in life. Some I recognize right away, a few times I have had to dust off my recollection a little bit, but then what a gem it revealed. I am thankful for each one of you.
“Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.” Psalm 85:10
This verse causes me to want to sing, “I see friends shaking hands, saying ‘How do you do?’ They are really saying, ‘I love you.’ And I think to myself, ‘What a wonderful world!”
Don’t you love it when old friends get together? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have lunch with friends like the ones in today’s verse, Love and Righteousness, Faithfulness and Peace?
Proverbs 18:24 teaches that there are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.” It also reminds us that a friend always loves through the good and the bad times.
Bill Gaither hit the nail on the head when he wrote the song, “Old Friends:” “Now God must have known, there’d be days on our own we would lose the will to go on. That’s why he sent friends like you along. Old friends you’ve always been there my old friends we’ve had more than our share, old friends, we’re all millionaires in old friends.”
Hosea wrote, “I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them…” (Hosea 11:4). Doesn’t that sound like a friend that we all have?
“Who knows your disappointments?
Who hears each time you cry?
Who understands your heartaches?
Who dries the tears from your eyes?
Do you know (Do you know) my Jesus?
Do you know (Do you know) my Friend?
Have you heard He loves you?
And that He will abide ’til the end?”
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
“Link to YouTube Video – Do You Know My Jesus?
