Having grown up in church, this was one of those verses that we had to memorize for Awana, but that's about it. I never really thought about the actual meaning of the verse until the other night. After talking to one of my friends about how it wasn't fair that I had to help two of my other friends make up even when it meant that after they made up, I would go back to third wheeling it up all the time. She told me that no matter how much it sucked, it's what good friends do, and there really wasn't much I could do about it. At first I was kind of upset because it wasn't the answer I was looking for, but after I thought about it some more, this verse popped into my mind. First, I had to look up the definition of adversity (fortune or fate; a condition marked by misfortune, calamity, or distress), and everything kind of clicked.
I realized that no matter how sucky things might be for me after helping someone out, it was the right thing to do. Not only because that's just what good friends do (even though that IS important), but also because it's what GOD tells us to do. He doesn't say that a friend loves only when the situation will work out in their favor. He says that a friend loves at ALL times. I know that I want to make myself available to any of my friends when they need it, but I need to work on accepting that I may not get anything out of it in the end. I need to be willing to help out and love on them unconditionally, no matter what may happen.
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