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Priceless

07 Sunday Feb 2016

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Today’s Reading: John 15:9-17 Version ESV
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How many friends do you have? But real friends. Do you know that to have friends is directly related to love? True love.

But, who do you really love? Friends are not those who love you, but those that you love. This love is always reciprocated, or at least it should be. It is that there is no friendship without love.

After all, a friend is the one who willingly shares his life with others. The number of friends that you have has its limits, the limits set by the capacity to love. Love has limits, limits as to the amount and as to the quality. We cannot love all people and those that we love we do not love with the same intensity. There are friends that we love most, like those closest to us and in some cases, they become almost like brothers or sisters.

Of all our friends, the one who showed greater love was Jesus. He gave his life for us. Such debt of love is priceless. So, voluntarily we become a slave to this friend. Now I follow his orders. What He command us is simple, however, it is very difficult. “That you love one another as I have loved you!” For that love, he gave his life.

Ildefonso Torres

Friendship: Comfort And Comparison

02 Wednesday Sep 2015

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Today’s Reading: Proverbs 18:24; 17:17
What is, truly, a friend? A friend is an instrument of comfort. It is the person to whom we entrust our secrets and fears and from whom we receive comfort. Before a friend we have the audacity to show the innermost aspects of our lives.

We do not expect from him careless irony or destructive criticism. The hand of a friend is a help and relief hand. A friend is also an instrument of comparison. He makes us love justice and avoid evil. A friend is used by God as a mirror in which we see the reflection of the wickedness and the hardness of our hearts.

A true friend not only speaks words we like; what we want to hear. A true friend is not flattering. He participates in our joy, but disagrees with our mistakes. The hand of a friend guides us and disciplines us.

Being a friend means to have love and be faithful. It’s not possible to be faithful without love. Love comforts, fidelity compares. Jesus wants to be your friend!

Ildefonso Torres