Real Friends | Next Level Relationships | Part 5 | Friends with Benefits | Keren Emmanuel

Two friends were walking through the desert. At some point of the journey, they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, stooped down and wrote in the sand “Today my best friend slapped me in the face”. They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a refreshing bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone “Today my best friend saved my life”. The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, and now, you write on a stone, why?” The other friend replied, “When a friend hurts us we should write it down in the sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when a friend does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.” Let's learn how to find, keep and be a next-level friend, just like Jesus is to us.