Friendliness

is mentioned in I Peter 1:7 as one of the worthy goals

on the way to Christian maturity.

Christians have all the reason to be friendly, gentle and loving

to all people disregard of their race, religion, political opinion

or morals. In the cold world it often is interpreted as being

naive or unwise. Once you get to know true believers you

find out that we are very soft from outside, but hard from inside.

We have firm convictions about issues, but we don’t impose

them by force on others. How could we?

Our Lord had nails piercing his hands and he cried out,

“Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.”

He is a friendly Savior.