There are few blessings in life better than a good friendship. Though most of us count a wide range of people as our friends, most of us have two or three we count especially close and especially trusted. While I was sitting at John MacArthur’s memorial service and hearing his friends tell of their love for him (and his for them), I began to ponder some of the unexpected blessings that have come with both having friends and being a friend. Here are just three that came to mind.
A friend’s spouse. It is unusual for a couple to click perfectly with another couple, though certainly it’s possible. In my experience, it is typical for either the husbands to click and then draw their wives into the friendship or the wives to click and then draw in their husbands. But either way, one unexpected blessing of having friends is developing a friendship with my friends’ wives. These are women I relate to in a way that feels almost brotherly-to-sisterly, a friendship that has Christ in common but also a shared love for another person. A wife will often have a special love and appreciation for
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