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A FOXHOLE FRIEND
This article was posted on Monday, July 14, 2008
BE A FOXHOLE FRIEND
Ecclesiates 4:9 TLB—- “Two can Accomplish more.”
It is said that marines are taught to dig a foxhole big enough for a friend. That’s good advice! we all face battles in life and our “foxholes come in many shapes and sizes. So let us understand three things.
1. The foxhole is for you and a friend- not a friend alone. You can ask a friend to fight with you but you should never send someone to fight your battles for you.
2.Before the battle, you should have develop the friendship. Foxholes aren’t about using people. You first need to be a friend, before asking help of a friend.
3. You should have been in your friend’s foxhole with them. You should be willing to fight for any friend whose help you will request. That’s what friends do., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Never let it be said you were a silent friend! Here are two important truths about foxholes.
a. Foxholes without friends are unhealthy. Trying to face the world alone is dangerous and unscriptural. “It is not good for a man to be alone. (Gen. 2:18NLT)
b. Foxholes proves friends. In tough times you discover who your real friends are. When Pepper Rodgers coached at UCLA, his team had some bad seasons. Recalling one, Rodgers told a reporter, “My dog is about my only friend, and I told my wife that a man needs at least two friends. So she bought me another dog.” As the old saying goes: In prosperity , our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
Before you get into foxhole with someone, understand,
4. Foxhole friends are few.
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln once received a request to pardon a soldier sentenced to be executed for desertion. The man didn’t have a single letter of support vouching for him. Next morning the officer was shocked to hear Linicoln say that the testimony of a friend had sealed his decision to pardon a man. When the officer reminded the President that the request had come with no letter of reference, Lincoln simply stated “I will be his friend” then signed his pardon. If you have such people in your life, value them, they are rare indeed.
5. Foxhole friends provide strength before and during the battle.
Even before the battle, simply knowing that someone believes in you and will fight for you is uplifting. Epicurus said, “It is not so much our friends’ help that help us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”
6. Foxhole friends see things from the same perspective. five year old Tracey
asked her dad if she could play at the house of a friend. He told her she could be long as she was home by 6 o’clock for dinner. When 6 o’clock rolled around, Tracey was nowhere to be seen. After about 25 minutes, Tracey opened the front door. Her father working to control his impatience, asked where she’d been. “My friend’s doll broke right when I supposed to live for home. Her dad said, “And i suppose you were helping her fix it? Tracey replied, “No, I was helping her cry.”
What was Tracey? She was a foxhole friend! Are you?
(Written by Rev, Rice Wilkerson of the Peacemakers Ministry))
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