Psychology today surveyed 40,000 Americans to ask what qualities they value most in friends.

Number three, they said, warmth and affection.

Number two, they said they're looking for loyalty.

But you know what number one desperate need among the people for friends to be?

Keeping confidences.

Keeping confidences.

No wonder people prefer pets than friends.

They're going to keep confidence, all right?

They're going to tell nobody anything.

Ancient Egyptian records show us that the highest title known in the courts of the pharaohs

was that title that could be translated literally the one friend.

Literally, the one friend. And this is a designation that was reserved only for one person,

one person who gained the loyalty, who has the confidence, one person who may be willing to

die for the Pharaoh, somebody who Pharaoh could trust completely with his life. But before we can even begin to know what it means to be or have that one friend, we must

know the character of the one friend who sticks to you closer than a brother.

Because without him life would have been void of meaningful friendships.

Without him, the emptiness and the loneliness would dry up the joy of godly friendships

that we are meant to have.

I want to begin where the Bible begins.

When God created Adam, he said it is not good for Adam to be alone.

So God gave him Eve.

And for some time, Adam had a perfect relationship with God.

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