Making a Differencewith Pastor Phil Erickson

Jul 23rd, 2022 My Best Friend – The Saturday Morning Post

Today’s Passage – Proverbs 25 – 27 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – click here to view the text from the Blue Letter Bible website)

(Second Milers also read – Luke 1 – 2; Psalms 111 – 115; Proverbs 23)

Read the “0723 Evening and Morning” devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” (Proverbs 27:6)

Good morning. I went into my calendar book and found that Camille had written me a message…

“There have been 3 greatest things that have happened to me…

Jesus, Melissa, and you.”

Camille is my best friend. I love my best friend. I married my best friend. Her kisses are true, they are not deceitful. Her wounds are faithful: she always tells me the way it is, and let’s me know when I screw up. Camille is my best friend. But she is not my greatest Friend.

“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:12-13)

Jesus is my Greatest Friend: He laid down His life for me. He saved me from Hell, and built me a mansion in Heaven. He gets me through life here on earth. I love Jesus. Jesus is my Greatest Friend. Jesus, My Greatest Friend, even introduced me to my best friend, Camille, my wife. He told me, along with every other husband…

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” (Ephesians 5:25-27)

When we see the love that the Lord Jesus Christ had for His church, and what the church did to Him, we begin to understand that there may be problems. The church beat Him, spit on Him, mocked Him, pulled His beard out, and crucified Him. But He still loved us. This is our example to love our wives as Christ also loved the church. Be forgiving.

Peace.