6. A friend speaks the truth in love. “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy” (Prov. 27:6).
Mark Twain remarked, “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience—this is the good life.” Not really! Those times our conscience gets dull, that’s when we need friends to bring necessary adjustment.
When I read with an ache in my heart of the recent divorce decision of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, who dismissed it as a “conscious uncoupling,” I prayed and wondered how different things could’ve been had they identified as Bible-believing Christians with godly friends who could have spoken the truth in love to them in their time of need.
