The late Erma Bombeck said, “A friend is somebody who won’t go on a diet when you’re fat.”
Someone else said, “A friend is someone who multiplies your joys and divides your grief.”
But the best definition I have ever read is this one, “A friend is someone who will walk into your house when the whole world has just walked out.”
Ben Franklin said, "Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing a friend."
Someone else wrote this: "I love you not only for what you are, but what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you are making yourself, but what you are making me." A friend is someone who will make you a better person. It is someone who will draw you closer to the Lord.
All of us have relationships, and with few exceptions, success in life depends on the ability to establish and maintain proper relationships with the right people. Relationships can make your child or break your child (and you for that matter). Proverbs 12: 26 tells us, “The righteous should choose his friends carefully, for the way of the wicked leads them astray.” Be friendly to everyone, but don’t have everyone as a friend. I think it is fair to say that there are people in hell today because they chose the wrong friends.
