Here's an important question: Are you a people-pleaser or a God-pleaser? Hopefully, you're far more concerned with pleasing God than you are with pleasing girls or guys. But face facts: even if you're a devoted Christian, you're still going to feel the urge to impress your friends and acquaintances--and sometimes that urge will be strong.
Peer pressure can be good or bad, depending upon who your peers are and how they behave. If your friends encourage you to follow God's will and obey His commandments, then you'll experience positive peer pressure, and that's a good thing. But, if your friends encourage you to do foolish things, then you're facing a different kind of peer pressure... and you'd better beware. When you feel pressure to do or say things that lead you away from God, you're heading straight for trouble. So don't do the "easy" thing or the "popular" thing. Do the right thing, and don't worry about winning any popularity contests.
Are you satisfied to follow the crowd? If so, you will probably pay a heavy price for your shortsightedness. But if you're determined to follow the One from Galilee, He will guide your steps and bless your undertakings. To sum it up, here's your choice: you can choose to please God first, or you can fall victim to peer pressure. The choice is yours--and so are the consequences.
Thoughts for today.
It is comfortable to know that we are responsible to God and not to man. It is a small matter to be judged of man's judgment.
Don't be addicted to approval. Follow your heart. Do what you believe God is telling you to do, and stand firm in Him and Him alone.
A tip for today.
An extremely devoted Christian doesn't follow the crowd... An extremely devoted Christian follows Jesus.
A prayer for today.
Dear Lord, thank You for all the blessings You have given me. Today and every day I will do my best to please You by thinking good thoughts and doing good deeds. Amen.
A verse for today.
Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or bad.
2 Corinthians 5:9--10 HCSB
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