Wednesday August 28th, 2024
« Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble »
14 Do not try to work together as equals with unbelievers, for it cannot be done. How can right and wrong be partners? How can light and darkness live together?
15 How can Christ and the Devil agree? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
16 How can God’s temple come to terms with pagan idols? For we are the temple of the living God! As God himself has said, “I will make my home with my people and live among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
17 And so the Lord says, “You must leave them and separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with what is unclean, and I will accept you.
18 I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
It is not every friend that you should allow your children to get close to.
« Don’t fool yourselves. Bad friends will destroy you »
Many parents allow their children to befriend Jonadabs (2 Samuel 13:3-5), saying this is the age of freedom.
What foolishness!
Our memory verse today states clearly that we would become like the people we keep company with.
Do you want your child to be destroyed?
An adage says. “Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are”.
If your child has a close friend who is not a child of God, that child is already on his way to becoming a prey to the devil.
Separate your children from such friends immediately.
I have a responsibility over my own children.
As a young boy, when all my friends were playing outside, my mother would say to me, “Come in and study”.
I would say to her, “But the other children are playing”.
She would respond by saying, “Others are not my business; you are my business”.
Today I thank God for my mother because she was very firm with me.
Psalm 1:1-3 tells us that those who want to be blessed must stay away from certain people.
They must stay away from the ungodly, sinners and scorners.
Tell your children that if they want to enjoy good success in life, they must choose their friends carefully.
- The only prerequisite for choosing a friend, according to Proverbs 13:20 is that the individual must be wise.
Remember that the beginning of wisdom is in the fear of God.
If that friend is not a true child of God, your child should not befriend him or her.
Communication does not stop at friendship.
The phone which almost every child has nowadays is a major tool of communication.
The child must avoid evil communication on the phone too.
- Check the kind of movies and shows they watch on television.
Don’t allow just anything because we are in a modern age; the word of God is ever relevant – Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
Application – Audit your children’s friends and the kind of content they have been consuming on their gadgets and devices.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Edited by Naomie Joseph
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