I have heard so many excuses this month from people who make mistakes and don’t want to take responsibility for their actions. Some people like to surround themselves with friends that are negative influences and when something bad happens they blame their friends and excuse themselves.
However if you have negative friends in your life, it is your decision to go along with everything they do. In other words, no one “makes you” do anything.
When a friend asks you to do something that you know is bad, and yet you do it anyway, you have no right to blame your friends because they didn’t make the decision for you. You don’t have to lie for them, and you don’t have to join them in what they are doing.
We all make our own decisions on the type of person we want to be, and no matter whom you hang out with, they cannot affect your judgment, personality or your decisions. This is all your doing!
So when a person acts out of character or slightly different from what you are use to, it has nothing to do with whom he or she hangs out with. What you are seeing is who they are choosing to be.
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what union can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: "I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
3 John 1:11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.
So if you have a friend that is acting out, and you think it has to do with the people they hang out with, you better think again. (And what does that make you for hanging out with them?)
Now if you are someone who hangs out with negative influences then let me share a poem with you that I have found on the subject.
Friends will come
And friends will go.
Many you will never know.
Some are real!
Some are not!
Be aware of those that plot!
Good ones, few!
Phonies, many!
Lifetime friends! Rare, if any!
Use your head!
Ask your heart!
Choose your friends and choose them smart.
Some will cheat you!
Some will hurt you!
Some turn quick and then desert you.
Some will try
to bring you down.
Turn your smile to a frown.
There’ll be good ones!
They’ll be rare.
They’re the ones who love and care.
Treat them good.
Tell no lies!
Be yourself. Wear no disguise!
Know that they
can trust in you.
Be a friend and be it true.
Lose the ones
That you can’t trust.
Those that fill you with disgust.
A friend is one
who betters you.
Pray for one, you might get two.
For he who has
a trusted friend.
One they, truly, can depend.
Must, in return,
a friend, true, be.
That they can trust, dependably.
I shared my thoughts!
I gave my views.
Be careful in the friends you choose.
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