Many people are proud of the number of friends they have or perceive that to be the case. The real truth is that you only find out how many true friends you have when your world is falling around you.

As my wife puts up a courageous fight against cancer I’m left to wonder why certain things have turned out the way they have so far.

Here is what I am referring to about a true friend. A true friend will be by your side regardless. They will be there to help you make the most difficult of decisions. They will be there night and day no matter what price they have to pay for themselves.

I do think that one of the major issues in this regard in the family of believers is that e-mail has made all of us lazy when it comes to reaching out to others. E-mails are fast and easy for all of us to hide behind when we really have other things that are a bigger priority. I also think people hide behind this stuff about not calling someone because they don’t want to interfere. What all of us have no way of knowing is that God wants us to make that call because only he knows what both need!