Are you a people pleaser or a God pleaser? Hopefully, you're far more concerned with pleasing God than you are with pleasing your friends. But face facts: even if you're a devoted Christian, you are 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 to 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.
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.
#alln4Jesus
Prayer from the Blogger:
God,
We are a people who long to please someone. Help us, so that, someone would be You and only You. Let everything flow from Your being pleased.
Amen
Digging Deeper:
Read the following passage -
Galatians 1:6-10
New Century Version (NCV)
The Only Good News
6 God, by his grace through Christ, called you to become his people. So I am amazed that you are turning away so quickly and believing something different than the Good News. 7 Really, there is no other Good News. But some people are confusing you; they want to change the Good News of Christ. 8 We preached to you the Good News. So if we ourselves, or even an angel from heaven, should preach to you something different, we should be judged guilty! 9 I said this before, and now I say it again: You have already accepted the Good News. If anyone is preaching something different to you, let that person be judged guilty!10 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.
Challenge:
Please God! Praise God! Proclaim God!
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