Each of us needs to cultivate a small group of spiritual friends who we can share our temptations and struggles with. The Puritans used to ask God for one “bosom Friend” who they cold share their temptations and struggles with. In order to do this we have to admit our need and give the other person “permission” to minister to us. Galatians 6:2 reminds us that we are to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” After God created man, and put him in the garden in Gesesis 2. We are told that God said, “It is not good for man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18. God recognized that we needed people even before sin entered world, with that in mind to overcome our struggles and difficulties we need to develop relationships now. We often have a hard time finding that friend in our life who can and will help us in times of need. We need to remember Proverbs 18:24 which says, “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” Take time to develop spiritual relationships, you never really know when you are going to need them.
