JESUS CHRIST, My LORD, My GOD, My FRIEND

An unfailing friend!

(J.C. Ryle, "Able to Save")

"There is a friend who sticks closer 

than a brother!" Proverbs 18:24 

Does any reader of this tract need 
a friend? In such a world as this,
how many hearts there are which
ought to respond to that appeal!

How many there are who feel
"I stand alone." 
How many have found one idol 
broken after another, one staff 
failing after another, one fountain 
dried after another--
as they have traveled through
the wilderness of this world.

We need much comfort and consolation
in a world like this. It is no easy matter
for a man to carry the cross and reach
Heaven. There are many enemies
to be encountered and overcome.

We have often to stand alone.
We have at the best times, few
with us, and many against us.
We need cordials and strong
consolation to sustain and
cheer us, and to preserve us
from fainting on the way as we
travel from Egypt into Canaan.

If there is one who needs a friend,
let that one behold an unfailing friend
at the right hand of GOD, the LORD
JESUS CHRIST. Let that one repose
his aching head and weary heart upon
the bosom of that unfailing friend,
JESUS CHRIST the LORD.

There is one living at GOD'S right
hand of matchless tenderness.
There is one who . . .
  never dies.
  never fails,
  never disappoints,
  never forsakes,
  never changes HIS mind,
  never breaks off friendship.

That ONE, the LORD JESUS,
I commend to all who need a friend.

No one in a world like this, a fallen
world, a world which we find
more and more barren, it may
be, every year we live; no one
ever need be friendless, while
the LORD JESUS CHRIST lives.

Christian, you have a FRIEND who
never slumbers and never sleeps--
a FRIEND who cares for you
morning, noon, and night.

 
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