A true friend is someone who will love you ALL the time, no matter what.
This friend will see you for who you are, even though they know all of your quirks and weaknesses.
A genuine friend consistently demonstrates love and support, standing by you in both good and bad times, no matter the situation or circumstances.
A description of a true friend is summed up in the following definitions:
Loyal: Giving or showing constant support.
Consistent: Unchanging in nature, or effect over time.
Dependable: Trustworthy and reliable.
Devoted: Very loving or loyal.
Faithful: Remaining loyal or steadfast.
In This Blog Post:
You Can't Buy Love
No matter what Hallmark thinks, you can't buy love with roses and chocolates.
Love is earned and given through a lifetime of choices and actions.
We can say, "I love you," a thousand times but never show love in what we do.
Love is a word of action, and it never fails.
Money fails, friendships fail, plans fail, goals fail, ideals fail, we fail.
But, love never fails.
What Is Love?
Love is a soft, humble approach to understanding another person.
1 Corinthians 13 describes love as being patient, and kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, and it isn't proud.
Love does not dishonor others, it isn't self-seeking, and it isn't easily angered, nor does it keep a record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth. Love always protects, trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres.
How Does Love Work?
Love is a selfless thing, and it gives and gives, and then it gives some more, without wanting anything in return. That is how love works.
Love is worked out in everyday transactions between people and it can be in the form of a smile, a gift, a kind word, a kind gesture, an act of mercy, and so on.
All of us our products of our environment, but we are all born with the ability to love.
God is love, and God created us in His image.
As you learn more about God's love, you will understand why God gave up His Son to die for our sins --Because of His love for us.
Jesus died on the cross for our sins because He loved His Father and wanted to obey Him.
Now, through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, which was made available to us after the ascension of Christ, we can rise above our circumstances and be renewed in our mind and spirit.
When this happens, we can show love so freely, and it's the most rewarding thing ever.
Because God's love never fails.
What Does Love Look Like?
Love isn't the picture of a cherub or an arrow through a heart, it is of a mother soothing her infant late in the night, or of a husband speaking kindly to his wife, or of a wife overlooking her husband's faults.
Love is a a picture of children respecting their parents, and Christians obeying God.
Love is an act of peace, when it refuses to say something hurtful in disagreements.
Love is revealed in patiently listening to another person's stories, or forgiving someone's wrongdoing.
Love is offering someone a blessing versus a curse.
Love is demonstrated in everyday moments of giving up our time for the good of another through acts of kindness, moments of gentleness, walking in humility, and expressing gratitude.
Walk in Love
In Ephesians 5:18, we are admonished to be children of light who walk in love with everyone, not just with those who we love, but with our enemies as well.
Walking as children of light involves living in a way that is pleasing to God.
This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you, that your joy may be full. John 15:10-12
Have you experienced this joy that comes from offering love by way of forgiveness and sympathy to another human being?
It is the greatest feeling in the world.
This joy fills your being when you lay down your life for another.
If you are deficit in the love department. I challenge you to re-package the way you view love.
Here's a start. Below is a list of 3 different ways you can express love to another person. Whether it be your grandma, son, cousin, co-worker, or your enemy.
We are called to walk in love.
3 Ways A Friend Loves At All Times
A Friend Forgives and Forgets.
A forgiving friend will free their friends from the wrongs of the past and present.
A believing friend will know how to commit the wrongdoings to God and trust Him with the outcome.
An understanding friend will release people from living up to their expectations, thereby creating peace in the relationship.
A Friend is Longsuffering and Non Judgmental.
A good friend will see other people through the Lord's eyes.
A true friend won't jump to conclusions.
A loving friend will give people the benefit of the doubt.
A Friend is Patient With Their Time.
A caring friend listens closely to other people's stories and responds in love.
A genuine friend won't brush their friends off.
A kind friend will set aside their desires and do someone else's idea instead.
A sincere friend will sit in another person's company just to offer comfort to them.
A Prayer to Be a Good Friend Who Loves At All Times
Father in Heaven,
Thank you for your spirit within us. Renew our hearts and minds with this message of love and allow your truth to set us free.
Help us overcome shame, guilt, resentment and stubbornness; anything that is holding us back from giving of ourselves freely in love.
Allow your spirit to rise up within us and release us to do good works through your holy name.
Plant within our hearts a desire to give of our time, to speak more kindly, to show more affection, to offer forgiveness, to hold our tongue, and to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Lord, we want our lives to be pleasing to you. Father, come and release your holy spirit within each reader. Bless them with your goodness today, and by your spirit set them free.
Fill them with joy unspeakable as they walk as children of light.
Thank you for hearing this prayer.
In Your precious name,
Amen.
Blessings ~
Angie
The Founder of
My Sun & Shade Ministries
to Women, Children, Marriages, and Families
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