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A true friend is waiting

You have probably heard this phrase, "With friends like these, who needs enemies?" Perhaps, some are even saying, "With relatives like these...". Don't worry. I am not speaking about you. But there are many who experience condemnation from within. That is the hardest to go through. The very space you hope to receive comfort and shelter, is the same place you get even more injured and depressed. Job had the same problem. Job 18:19-21, He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings. Those in the west are astonished at his day, As those in the east are frightened. Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God. Bildad is talking about Job in the whole chapter. The statements keep building up and climaxes with these verses. He calls Job wicked. He says Job does not know God. Oh my! What a pronouncement. And this is a friend!? In spite of all this we have a friend that sticks to...