Are you hanging out with people who make you a better Christian, or are you spending time with people who encourage you to stray from your faith? The answer to this question will have a surprising impact on the condition of your spiritual health. Why? Because peer pressure is very real and very powerful. That's why one of the best ways to ensure that you follow Christ is to find fellow believers who are willing to follow Him with you.
Our world is filling with pressure: Some good, some bad. The pressures that we feel to follow God's will and obey His commandments are positive pressures. God places them on our hearts so that we might act in accordance with His will. But we also face different pressures, ones that are definitely not from God. When we feel pressured to do things--or even to think thoughts--ha leads us away from Him, we must beware.
Many elements of society seek to mold us into more worldly beings; God, on the other hand, seeks to mold us into new beings, new creations through Christ, beings that are most certainly not conformed to this world. If we are to please God, we must resist the pressure that society seeks to impose upon us, and we must conform ourselves, instead, to His will, to His path, and to His Son.
Thoughts For Today.
You will get untold flak for prioritizing God's revealed and present will for your life over man's. But, boy, is it worth it.
God is not hard to please. He does not expect us to be absolutely perfect. He just expects us to keep moving toward Him and believing in Him, letting Him work with us to bring us into conformity to His will and ways.
A Tip For Today.
Put peer pressure to work for you: Make up your mind to hang out with people who will put pressure on you to become a better person.
A Prayer For Today.
Lord, You know my heart, and You're concerned with the "inner me." Today, I will worry less about what other people think. And I'll worry more about what You think. Amen.
A Verse For Today.
Do you think I am trying to make people accept me? No, God is the One I am trying to please. Am I trying to please people? If I still wanted to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10 NCV
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