Do you have any real, authentic friends? The kind of person who cares enough about you to tell you what no one else will. The person who is completely reliable and like-minded with you. Paul did, he called Timothy such a friend in Philippians 2:18-23.
Paul described Timothy as authentic and reliable. Do you ever really think about what it means to be reliable? Here is a list of just a few things we would get with 99% reliability. If 99% was all we looked for we would have:
• No phone service for 15 minutes each day.
• 1.7 million pieces of first class mail lost each day.
• 35,000 newborn babies dropped by doctors or nurses each year
• 200,000 people getting the wrong drug prescriptions each year
• Unsafe drinking water three days a year.
• Three misspelled words on the average page of type.
• 2 million people would die from food poisoning each year.
So you see we have a lot of things that are reliable that we take for granted and a lot of friendships that are no where close.
In life we need to spend time finding those people who care enough to tell us the truth. Who are like-minded and who are completely reliable and put themselves second. If you find real, authentic friends like that life will be so much better for you.
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!
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