WHO IS YOUR FRIEND IN ADVERSITY?

 

          WHO IS YOUR FRIEND IN ADVERSITY?

There is an old saying : Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

It is a hard fact that sincere, loyal and helpful friends are rare. So it is unwise to depend on your friends during the days of your misfortune, trouble, hardship, distress, suffering, affliction, sorrow, misery, tribulation, woe and hard times.

Most of the friends are selfish and insincere. Instead of helping us when we need their help, they avoid our company making all sorts of lame excuses.   

          Whom should we then trust in adverse times? The best answer is not friends and relative but God and God alone who never lets down his devotees.

            A psalm in the Bible says: Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be blessed on earth. No body should deliver such a man  to the will of unhelpful people. Even his own familiar friend in whom he trusted , who ate his  bread, will lift up his heel against him.   

But God will be different. He will be merciful and pull him out from all the hardships  of adversity.

Moral: In times of adversity, put your trust only in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.                                           

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G.R.Kanwal

19 August 2024