A Friend to the End

Scripture: "There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." — Proverbs 18:24

All week we've talked about the planning, the train, the pressing, the day, and the mercy. Here's what all of it stands on: there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. I've had nights with nobody in the room — and I was never once alone. That friend carried me when my legs wouldn't, sat with me in the quiet, and never asked me to clean myself up before I knocked on His door. That's the house we're building here: a place where the lonely get a friend to the end — because that's the friend He was to me first.

Say it out loud: "I've got a friend to the end — and so do you."