The Best Company

Friends make life fun. With a good friend by our side, difficult things become easier. Imagine school without friends! Even good things would lose a good deal of their goodness if we couldn’t share them: things like meals, movies, music, mountains, and even a little mischief. Good friends just make life great.

Thoughts of our friends can comfort us when we feel alone. David cheered himself by thinking of his friends when he was alone in the wilderness, being hunted by the very opposite of friends. Psalm 142 preserves his prayer, which he ends on this note of hope:

The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.

Simply put, there is no blessing like the blessing of good friends who love God. May we all find ourselves surrounded by them.