Title: Wisdom of Proverbs - About Friends
Wisdom of Proverbs - About Friends (2)
Text/ Proverbs 27:17
1. Introduction
First, let me ask you one thing.
Aside from “the same modifier as true-true,” how many friends are you really happy to meet?
In the United States, according to Psychology Today, "People are happier with their friends than with their spouse or children." In the United States, “how many true friends do you have?” It is said that in 1985, “3 people” and in 2006, “2 people” answered the question. It is evidence that modern society is making it difficult to make friends. Sociologist Jan Jager said, “For modern people, making friends is the last thing to do after seeing everything else. It is an illusion. Friends are essential to a satisfying life. Making friends is one of the 0 things to do” (E. Zelinsky, 50 Things We Forgotten, Chung-A Publishing House, p. 168).
2. Wisdom Words About Friends in Proverbs
* You are my friends, if you do what I command you. From now on I will no longer call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master does, and I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 15:14-15)
3. How do you make just good friends “without the true true equivalent”?
first. I have to be financially independent myself. * Wealth makes many friends, but the poor make friends without friends (Proverbs 19:4) * If a poor man is hated even by his brothers, how much more, friend, will he not be far from him?
If you approach your friends with a desire to be rewarded - hoping to get something - and a desire to be virtuous (greasiness - seeking opportunity), or if you approach your friends secretly, you will never, and will never, build healthy friendships. Why? Because “the soul of a man is the lamp of the Lord; he searches the depths of a man as if he peered into clear water” (Proverbs 20:27). If you have benefited, it is the love of that friend, not because you do not know that the friend is Kishim. If you don't know this and cause your heart to come again, it's a big sin against your friend.
second. It should be of the mind that 貧賤之交不可忘 糟糠之妻不下堂 (Bincheon is impossible to get through, the kindness of a friend in poor days should not be forgotten, and a wife who shared hardships with him will never let go). Song Hong refused when he asked to marry his older sister Princess Hoyang as his wife - Reference: Classical Art No. 281).
As seen in TV dramas (Broken Friendship - Broken Family - Broken Love), many tragedies in this world are about forgetting grace in difficult times - trivializing - no. Rather, does it not come from hiding the fact of one's own difficulties and consciously turning away from it? You shouldn't do that. If you are doing this now, you must repent and correct it.
third. “As iron sharpens iron, so a man makes his friend’s face shine” (Proverbs 27:17). Someone put on the desk “It is not easy to live” instead of “It is difficult to live” and said, “It is not easy to live,” and he gets courage. Getting a good friend is the same as being a good friend. It's not difficult, but it's not easy either. It's hard to just make good friends for free without any effort.友情 (friendship) is a verb, not a noun. It takes time - understanding - loyalty - wealth - devotion to blossom.
A good friend is just a good person to be with, even when one of them has no money. Because I am well aware of 貧者不以貨財爲禮 老子不以筋力爲禮 (The poor do not honor themselves with wealth, and the elderly do not honor themselves by force). . Wealth is relative. In this world, there will always be people who have more wealth than me someone who has less than me. Therefore, wise people do not choose their friends based on their wealth. As iron sharpens iron...