Choose Your Friends Wisely

To be or not to be different, that is the question we are asking you. Our society has become cookie cutter people. No one thinks for himself or herself, no one asks questions for himself or herself, and no one speaks for himself or herself, anymore. It seems as if everyone is saying, “they do it, why can’t I?

Stand up for yourself and be different, what is it going to hurt. You may actually find that people will give you respect and consideration, listen, and love you like you have never known. It truly takes a bigger person to go against the flow of the river, then to float along with the rest of the crowd. Do you realize that when the salmon struggle against the water they eventually make it to where they wanted to be?

We are not going to lie to you and say it is all easy, when it is not. It is a daily struggle to not be like the world. Partying is fun, drinking is fun, and sleeping around is fun that is until you see that it exactly what Satan wants from you, your life. The slogan for Nike says, “Just do it”. Well, what is that really implying? You can do what you want, with whomever you want and wherever you want. Do not make this world and what is in it your best friend, it will fail you in the end. If you choose not to be different, you will have to deal with the results in the end. It only takes one to make a difference, whether it is good or bad. Which will you contribute to by your actions?

Proverbs 12:26 (NKJV

26. The righteous should choose his friends carefully,

For the way of the wicked leads them astray.

John 6:66 (NKJV)

66. From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more.

Romans 12:2 (NKJV

2. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

I Corinthians 15:33 (NKJV)

33. Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

2 Corinthians 6:14 (NKJV)

14. Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:17 (NKJV)

17. Therefore "Come out from among them

And be separate”, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
and I will receive you.”

James 4:4 (NKJV)

4. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

2 Peter 2:20-21 (NKJV)
20. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
21. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.