O how incredibly important it is to have friends, to have true friends, and the only true friends are the ones who love us enough to say the things that hurt us the most. Shame on us all who have not been that friend to others, or have turned our backs to that friend when they came boldly to save us form ourselves. They are a treasure unlike any on this side of heaven, we are foolish to see them as anything less.

This morning The Lord really convicted me of this very thing, there have been several times over the past 2 years where God has clearly told me to confront and expose sin in the lives of those close to me, and I did not. At the time I guess I chose to take the easy road, I chose to believe the lies that demons threw my way, and I chose to doubt that God is good. The other day I was broken as I caught a glimpse of the bitter rotten fruit that these loved ones now bear because of their un repentant sin, that they still don’t even see, the same sin that I was told to expose. My disobedience has caused people that i love to suffer. I have failed as a friend.

Hebrews 3:12-14
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called ‘today’, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we share in Christ if in deed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.”

This is an evil world and we live in sinful flesh, what chance do we have against that without Godly praying obedient friends?

It’s not really a matter of IF we’ll sin, but WHEN, and when we are in sin it blinds us, it is seeking to lead us to the very gates of Hell if allowed, and with out us even knowing. God is so good and full of grace that he continually gives us opportunities to make right what we have made wrong, through him it is never to late.

I just happened to check a dear friends blog today, and it encouraged me greatly. She shared her heart of this very thing, true accountability. She is a true friend, she loved enough to do what is often the hardest thing to do, hold her friend accountable to the Lord. I don’t know who her friend is or what sin was exposed, but I do know that her boldness to speak the truth is a rare treasure, any person so foolish to turn from a friend such as this is not worthy of them. Thank you for sharing your heart dear friend, I am encouraged and reminded that it is never to late to be a TRUE friend!

~C