VERSE:
Proverbs 27:6
6 You can trust a friend
who corrects you,
but kisses from an enemy
are nothing but lies.
LESSON:
Does a true friend tell you what you need to hear, or just what you want to hear? This verse tells us that "...you can trust a friend who corrects you..." It also warns us "...but kisses from an enemy are nothing but lies...". I think that this verse is really telling us a number of things. First, I think that it is telling us that if you surround yourself with "Godly Friends", they will often provide you with valuable feed-back...and not just tell you what you want to hear. Sometimes we need someone to give us an unbiased opinion of things that we say or do. Godly friends will provide you with good advice or assessments, that others may not be willing to share with you. It also tells us that we must be careful not to listen to the opinions or advice of those who are not truly our friends...those people who do not really have our best interest in mind. How do we know the difference between these two types of persons and the opinions and advice that they offer? Ask yourself this question, do I think that this "friend" is a "Godly person"?
