FRIENDS OF GOOD CHARACTER

Johann H. Huleatt, wrote in Plough Magazine:

“Aristotle famously identifies three levels of friendship: those based on pleasure, on utility, and on character. Friends of pleasure might go fishing or golfing together; friends of utility might help each other in business; but friends of good character, friends “in the good,” love the good in each other, share their joys and sorrows, and are driven by a genuine interest in each other’s souls, with complete honesty.”

Fortunate is the person who has friends. Even more fortunate is the person who has ‘friends of character.’
I am most privileged to have a few friends that actually
“share their joys and sorrows, and are driven by a genuine interest in each other’s souls, with complete honesty.” I have friends that love my soul. Wow-wee!
I hope for others to have this level of friendship. But I have learned that to have that kind of friend is to be that kind of friend.
It is rather similar to the way the Father loves us.

“No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father.” Jesus