How To Choose Your Friends As Kids

by Sylvester Obinna | May 17, 2021 | Children

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Everyone has friends, but you must choose your friends wisely. This is because they can be a great asset or a great source of regret. Yeah, your friends can either make you or mar you. Their influence is very strong. It is not everyone that comes your way that qualify to enter into your friend zone; this is the reason you have to review your friends from time to time.

To review and choose your friends, ask questions like:

Who are your friends?
Are they from Christian homes and do they attend to the things of God with honour?
Do they tell lies?
Do they say vulgar jokes?
Do they encourage you to do good or bad?

Look at the questions and truthfully answer them. This helps you to know who to continue to have as a friend, and who to cut off from your side. The questions will help you to choose your friends.

Great people do not become friends with just anyone; they are careful with the people they call friends. This does not mean you should not be good to everyone or that you should not greet some people. It just means that it is not everyone that they share their life with. It is not everyone that they take counsel from. Friends are people you communicate well with, and therefore you have to choose your friends wisely.

It is my prayer that God will keep you, and that He will bless you with good friends. Amen.

Prayer:
Lord make me a better friend and bless me with good friends.

Action point:
Make a list of all your friends and start to examine that friendship list critically. Choose your friends. Then deliberately distance yourself from people you do not want to have as f

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