STOP AND THINK – In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. (John Churton Collins, 19th century English literary critic)

At this writing, someone has just won a mega-million dollar lottery. The winner will, no doubt, discover that he has lots of relatives’ and friends he didn’t know he had before the payoff. Had he fallen into some kind of tragedy through accident or an act of God, would he have found so many friends? Let us be sure to be constant friends, especially in adversity.

Wealth makes many friends, But the poor is separated from his friend. (Proverbs 19:4) A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. (Proverbs 18:24)