DON'T YOU KNOW, YOUR FUTURE IS IN WHO YOU'RE HANGING OUT WITH?!

"Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces." Proverbs 13:20(message)
Have you ever noticed being in school with people who curse or do drugs or drink, you get this fleshy feeling, like it seems enticing, or something you want to do, or even in church or with your regular day to day friends that aren't walking the right path of Christ and you know it but you still stick around them. EVEN THE BIBLE SAYS YOU WILL WATCH YOUR LIFE FALL TO PIECES IF YOU HANG OUT WITH FOOLS!! It can be hard finding christian friends in school, in homeschool classes, in church, in your every day to day life, but you NEED to or your life will fall apart right before your very eyes. This is a subject I just want to stress to teenagers so badly. Peer pressure and temptations come so easily so why up your chances of falling by hanging out with people who are not uplifting and examples of Christ. I've watched friends worship God and love Him with their lives, then get caught up in the wrong crowd and stop jumping during worship services, then slowly stop bringing their Bible and notebooks, stop tithing, and eventually not even go to church and completely turn their backs on God. If this is you and you have no idea why turn and look to who is by your side, is it friends that don't worship and love God the way they should. Who would you rather be by your side, wishy washy temporary friends who will turn their backs the moment they get the chance or GOD THE ONE WHO WAS THE SAME YESTERDAY AS HE IS TODAY AND THE DAYS TO COME, HE WILL NEVER CHANGE, He will NEVER turn HIS back He is ALWAYS there waiting for you.Hebrews 13:8-"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever!" read that very carefully. and if you are some one who has just started hanging out with people who don't have the characteristics f some one of Christ get out fast! It's okay to tell them about Jesus and be a mentor to them but to hang with them and be around them all the time you will soon notice changes in you, trying to become friends with people who do not love Jesus with all their hearts and walk the right path, to try and get them to love Jesus is just like if a clean kid went outside to play with a dirty kid in mudd to try and rub off his cleanliness to the dirty kid but instead you know that the once clean kid also becomes dirty, you can't throw soap into mudd and clean the mudd, the soap becomes dirty, but with clean pure water (aka Jesus) you can wash away the dirt and become clean and new again. I really hope you understand the importance of finding friends of Godly wisdom, I have too made the mistake of having the accompany of the wrong crowd, and I have experienced how much you change just by who you hang out with. It could start by listening to different music, instead of worship cd's or KLOVE (101.3) or Air1 (107.3) you start listening to 107.9 or take baby steps and start listening to 93Q just to fit in, then you dress differently, your attitude changes, your relationship with your family changes, your heart isn't as open as it once was, your ears don't hear Gods voice as well, you aren't as happy, you stop bringing your Bible to church, maybe even eventually stop going to church, but hopefully you read this or some one in your church gets to you before you learn the hard way. because God is so great!!! He loves you with all his heart and want YOU to be His and have your heart set on HIM. He died for YOU!!!! I hope if you notice a friend going through this situation or if you're going through this, I really hope this helped
God Bless
Cassie =]