A Friend at Court by Thomas Guthrie

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 28, 1906

A Friend at Court

By Thomas Guthrie

¶ We should seek a friend in Jesus Christ—the best, the truest, kindest, surest Friend man ever had. Ever-living, ever-loving, and everlasting, there is no father like our Father who is in heaven; and as there is no fatherhood like God's, there is no friendship like Christ's—to be once named with His, who, dying for us, the just for the unjust, laid down His life, not for friends, but for enemies. Other friends change; not He. Of them we may, and often do, expect too much; nor will friendship be long maintained between us, unless we lay our account with sooner or later discovering, and bearing with, their faults. But Jesus is faultless, altogether lovely—a Friend on whose favor we can not reckon, and from whose kindness we can not expect, too much. With a wider and far deeper meaning than the world attaches to the expression, in Him we have “a friend at court,” whose intercessions for us are addressed to a gracious ear and a loving heart. In the presence of His Father, and amid the glories of the upper sanctuary, at the eternal source of all love, and blessing, and power, where pardons are granted to save, and grace is bestowed to sanctify, and angels wait to welcome, and mansions stand ready to receive us, He pleads our cause at God's right hand, omnipotent to save.—Thomas Guthrie.

“Jesus knows all about our troubles; He will guide till the day is done; There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus; No, not one; no, not one.”