Such A Friend!

One could not but be moved by the story of the soldier who asked his officer if he might go out in the "No Man's Land" between the trenches in WWI to bring in one of his friends who lay grievously wounded. "You can go," said the officer, "but it's not worth it. Your friend is probably killed, and you will throw your own life away." But the man went. Somehow he managed to get to his friend, hoist him onto his shoulder, and bring him back to the trenches. The two of them tumbled in together and lay in the trench bottom. The officer looked very tenderly on the would-be rescuer, and then he said, "I told you it wouldn't be worth it. Your friend is dead and you are mortally wounded." "It was worth it, though, sir," he said. "How do you mean, 'worth it? I tell you your friend is dead." "Yes sir," the boy answered, "but it was worth it, because when I got to him he was still alive, and he said to me, 'Jim, I knew you'd come.'"

Do we have a friend such as this? The song writer wrote about our Lord Jesus Christ, "What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear!" Jesus himself said in Hebrews 13:5b, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So I figure that we do have such a friend.