WWME #4: Friends... choose them well!

Choose your friends wisely...
 IF you don’t, you may find yourself not as much like yourself as you remember...



While we cannot choose our family, we absolutely choose our friends. This may not seem that significant, but who we choose to allow to have unguarded access and influence in our lives is maybe the one of the most critcially important choice we will make.



Surround yourself with the people who you would most like to be like, and the will rub off on you. Likewise, if you surround yourself with people who have negative attitudes, behaviors and vocabulary... guess what... you are looking at who you will become if you stick around long enough.


Who we choose as friends is critically important. In choosing our friends, we are choosing our future. We need to be nice to everyone, and even be friendly to everyone... but we need to think real carefully about the influence of our closest friends...


I think this verse sums it up well....

Provebs 4
13 Hold on to instruction, do not let it go;
guard it well, for it is your life.
    14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
or walk in the way of evildoers.
    15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;    
turn from it and go on your way.

Here were my main three points!

1. You will become like your friends... so make sure they are worth copying... (Eph 5:1-2, Prov, 4, 1 Cor 15, James 3:10)

2. Your friends will become like you... so make sure you are worth copying... (Eph 5:3-14, James 3:10)

3. Our Friends help shape us into who God wants us to be... (5:15-21)

PS... IF YOU WANT TO KEEP LOVING GOD, YOU BETTER FIND SOME FRIENDS TO ENCOURAGE YOU IN THIS...