Friend or Fiend???

According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, a friend is a person who you like being with as well as a person who helps or supports someone or something.

I'd like to go even further and suggest that a friend encourages, strengthens, builds and feeds life and newness into your character. They'd never allow you to go astray but if they saw that you were, they'd immediately bring you back to reality.

I think that sometimes the longing desire to have someone to call a friend, can cloud our judgment and we end up with a fiend instead. These people mean us no good, they plot against us and know our flaws only to use them against us,

What God says about friendship....

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Proverbs 27:9 

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Sitting here, I'm thinking to myself just what kind of friend am I. Am I truly supportive and encouraging to them? Am I one that they can rely on no matter what? Will I pray for them? Could I offer brutal honesty to them when they're dead wrong?

What kind of friend are you?

Be the rainbow in some else's cloud.

   --- Dr. Maya Angelou