February 13

“The friends solute thee. Salute the friends by name.” 3 John 14

Do you see that friendship is something vary special? To he friends is a relationship which transcends rank or position. It is neither formal nor legal, but breaks through all barriers of status. Impossible as it must seem, a man may become the friend of God. Abraham did. If Abraham had acted only formally as a man. And if God acted formally as God, the two could never have become friends.

How rich in spirit was the aged Apostle John! Yet he had walked so far with God that when writing this letter, he did not speak of brothers and sisters but of friends. He who had arrived at the zenith of richness was so full of years that he could very well have patted the head of a sixty or seventy-year-old and called him "My child.” But he did not do this. Seniority was forgotten. and instead he addressed him as “My friend.” Someday, when you are very mature, you may make little children your friends!