Personal Friendships of Jesus
Personal Friendships of Jesus
Nothing reveals a man's heart better than his friendships. The kind offriend he is, tells the kind of man he is. The personal friendships ofJesus reveal many tender and beautiful things in his character. Theyshow us also what is possible for us in divine friendship; for theheart of Jesus is the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.
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The first friend a child has in this world is its mother. It comes here an utter stranger, knowing no one; but it finds love waiting for it. Instantly the little stranger has a friend, a bosom to nestle in, an arm to encircle it, a hand to minister to its helplessness. Love is born with the child. The mother presses it to her breast, and at once her heart's tendrils twine about it.
It is a good while before the child becomes conscious of the wondrous love that is bending over it, yet all the time the love is growing in depth and tenderness. In a thousand ways, by a thousand delicate arts, the mother seeks to waken in her child a response to her own yearning love. At length the first gleams of answering affection appear--the child has begun to love. From that hour the holy friendship grows. The two lives become knit in one.
When God would give the world a great man, a man of rare spirit and transcendent power, a man with a lofty mission, he first prepares a woman to be his mother. Whenever in
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