A minute for prayer… minutes for God’s word… minutes for fellowship…

And now I get personal.  Who are your friends?

The righteous should choose his friends carefully, for the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Proverbs 12:26

•  Do you number these as ones who would stand in your stead defending you before all in the Lord?
• Are they an army of love in Christ Jesus?
• Or are they few, perhaps even one?
• Do you even stand alone, one silent witness in the sea of a large congregation?
• Who are your friends in Christ?

I must confess that I would go alone to the prophet’s mountain, rather than pour forth Christ’s love upon another.  I fear the closeness of other men and other women, who have so often wounded my insecure confidence and challenged my faith in the Lord.

A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity.  A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; he rages against all wise judgment. – Proverbs 17:17;18:1

Do we give a minute to a friend?

And then another to another?

What counsel will we accept in the Lord from our brother (or sister) in Christ?

Are we a friend to many in Christ?

Or are we selfish with the minutes God has graciously given to us?