Friday of week 7 in Ordinary Time, 1

A true friend

Mark 10:1-12

"Tell me your friends and I'll tell you who you are" is a common norm for evaluating our real selves.  People who take the worldly as their friends will reap worldly fruits, including the death of self.

If we consider God as our first, best, and ultimate friend, we shall be perfect in him.

Jesus reiterated the sanctity of marriage because it is a mirror of God's friendship with man - eternal, merciful, and all forgiving.  If we follow this path, we shall truly be like him, a true friend:


A loyal friend

God's unending faithfulness can only be manifested by a true friend who will stay with us through thick and thin; 

A friend who leads us to the truth

A true friend molds our consciences and leads us to truth and freedom;


A friend with a perfect love

God's friendship makes us perfect in love and offering.

It is true, one who finds a friend finds a real treasure.  "For friendship is the elixir of life,"according to Ecclesiastes.  He mirrors God's abiding presence.

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