Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.Proverbs 27:9 (ESV)
I read an article reviewing an app on how to manage your friendships. The reviewer said that it’s the quality of those relationships that is more important than keeping a schedule of when and how to contact them.
Indeed, I think it is important for us to nurture our friendships from time to time within the constraints of our work, family and ministry responsibilities. These are the friends that we can best share our faith with as they know we care for them.
Heavenly Father, give us the time to make and nurture our friendships. Help us to make new friends so we can enlarge our area of influence. Friends are the people You have brought into our lives and whom we care for. Encourage us to share our faith and the Good News of the salvation of Christ with them. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Philip Niem
