Feb 21, 2022
The February series we are doing is all about restoring relationships. Last week we chatted about restoring your marriage. If you missed it, please go back and tune in. This week our topic is friendships.
Healthy friendships are a treasure. If you find one, you need to hang on to it. But what about when friendships end? It leaves us hurt, raw, vulnerable, and if we aren’t careful, bitter. “If you can’t talk about it, it owns you.” Let’s talk about friendship today so past wounds don’t own us.
This month’s key verse for these episodes is from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Think about friendship as you read it:
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."
Another verse I love when it comes to healthy friendships is Proverbs 27:17, "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another."
Two questions to ask about friendship - Do I leave my time with this friend feeling closer to them? Does this friend draw me closer to God?