FRIENDS: Every Skin Teet' Ain't A Laugh!

When We Fully And FinallyCome To The Realization That 

Our Creator, Savior, And High Priest 

Is Also

Our Forever Faithful Friend

We Should Then Look Seriously At What We Call 

Our Personal Friendships 

To See How They Match Up To The Exemplar Aka Example! 

Is Our Friendship A Circle!?! 

Is It Giving!?! 

Is It Taking!?! 

Is It Going Sideways!?! 

Or Has It Already Acquired The Wings Of The Wind 

And 

Is No Longer Mutually Beneficial!?! 

Beloved, 

To Have A Friend We Must Make Ourselves Friendly 

And

Available For Friendship! 

General Moses 

And 

Father Abraham 

Were The Friends Of Our Almighty God: 

God Himself Said So! 

Jesus Christ, Our King Blessed Forever

Called His Disciples His Friends! 

Soon-To-Be-King David 

And 

Prince Jonathan, King Saul's Son  ... And Heir

Were, By Covenant, Forever Friends! 

Friendship 

Is 

Built On Love, Trust, Mutual Consideration

The Desire To Bless

The Willingness To Care

And

To Complete ... Not Compete

And

The Desire To Know 

And 

To Be Known

And

To Give 

And 

Not Just Take, Use, Abuse, And Deliberately Confuse! 

Oooh, Light-Bulb Moment ... 

Jesus Christ Had Judas Iscariot  ... The Traitor

The "Friend" Who Only Wanted Benefits

Close At His Right Hand! 

If The Lord Of Life Was Betrayed 

By His Bosom Friend Who Ate His Food

So Will We

Because

WeAre Following In Our Lord's Footsteps! 

Think, Dear Ones

And 

Ever Remember That 

A Cold Heart Cannot Form A Warm Friendship 

And

Let Your Bible, The Preserved And EternalWord Of God

Be Your Pattern 

And 

Your Guide! 

Every Skin Teet' Ain't A Laugh 

Aka Not Everybody That Shows You Their Teeth 

Is 

Your Friend: 

Pet Dogs Show Their Teeth 

And 

Bite The Loving Hands That Feed Them! 

Choose To Be Wise! 

Peace!

HAPPY SABBATH + I Like God!

I Like God!
He is My Friend
On Whom I Can Depend!
I Like God!

Seriously, I Really Like God!

"Strange Expression, don't you Think!?!"

No! No! Not at all!

Think about this:

The people with whom I choose to associate are the people I really like, respect, trust, find companiable, comforting, helpful, comfortable, resourceful, loving, funny, smart, and trustworthy. 

We are the same things to each other, and we love each other enough to like being in each other's company ... all the time!

And ... we are all-around good people, with character and faith in The True and Living God. 

Look at God:

• Faithful
• Merciful
• Helpful
• Caring
• Gracious
• Resourceful
• Creative
• Artistic
• Comforting
• Comfortable
• Trustworthy
• Loving
• Just
• Companiable
• Wise, and 
• Funny and 
• Serious and 
• True, and
• Truthful 

God Knows The Best Ways for Me to Walk, all The Best Places where I May Lay My Head, Sets The Best Table, Guards Against Enemy Attacks, and knows where The Living Waters Flow, AND He Gives Me Life!

Best of All, because He does not Pry, and Waits to be called, and is Always Available on Demand, I share things with Him that I will not Share with Another Living Soul, knowing full well that He will not "Desert Me" by Reason of my Weaknesses, and Bad Temper, and Lying, and Cheating and Stealing and Daily Fornications and Adulteries! 

God Listens and He Counsels, but there have been times when He put His foot down and Chastised Me, and stated clearly: "Don't Do That! That is Not The Way for You!"

He doesn't leave Me to "Figure it out!" for Myself!

He Teaches Me The Right Way, and Helps Me to Walk in it!

We have had a few dust-ups over the years, though and, believe me, things were pretty bad for a while!

You see, I wanted to do something that God - Repeatedly - told me not to do, and I got on my high horse, and called Him a few unflattering descriptives and went on my merry way and did my own thing and paid ... BIG TIME!!

I was totally ticked off at God after that Debacle!

"How could You let me do that?!
How could You let that happen to me?!
Why didn't You stop Me?!
I thought you were My Friend!"

Want to hear what He said:

"Beloved, you have Free Will and Free Choice!
I will Never Force you to do The Right Thing!
I will Chastise, and Plead, and Love, and Call you BUT I will let you Decide AND whatever The Decision is that you make, I will be here Waiting for you when you call!"

His Answer totally took The Wind out of my Overblown Sails!

One day, I told Him that I gave Him Permission to yank Me back when He sees me going Astray and, do you know what? 

He has taken that request to His Heart, and He sticks closer to me that even my brother can!

It is Amazing!

On another occasion, we were Talking, and I Wondered how He could be Satisfied to be Always Giving Me Blessings for which I could Never Repay Him?!

Do you know what He said!

"I Love You! 
It is Enough that you Desire to be with Me, and are always Talking Intimately with Me, willing to Follow My Lead, and that you Trust Me, and are Walking - Faithfully ... Steadfastly - on The Highway To Heaven, as you Learn and Grow from Following The Way as Set Forth in My Family Book of Gifts that I Gave to you!"

My Heart Leaped!

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God makes me Laugh - often!

God makes me Think - all the time!

In God, My Life is Complete

By God, I Stand Firmly on My Feet

With God, Bitter Tastes Sweet

For God Has Made Heaven The Prize

To Those who Faithfully Compete!

I Like God

He Is Wise

Uses No Lies

Plans No Way-out Strategies

Wisdom Is His Eye

I Can On Him Rely

By His Grace I Can Satan Defy

With His Mercy

In The Great By and By

I Will Live Forever

Winging To Worlds

Which Imaginings Can't Prophesy!

I Like God!

This Is Not About Obligatory Love

This Is Friendship ... And Beyond

He Called Himself My Friend - Unto The End

And Sought Me Out When I Faced Harm

He Looks Out For Me - Day and Night

He Fights For Me - Dissolving The Blight

He Died For Me - To Give Me His Light

He Carries Me - When Cares Benight

He Comforts Me - When I Take A Fright

He Watches Me - I Am Ever In His Eyesight

And Because Of His Sacrificial Love

I Shall Gain The Winner's Wreath At The End Of The Fight!

I Really, Really, Like God!