As teenagers we have peers we hang with at home, in our churches and at schools. One’s peers could be age mate or not, but usually share the same interest.
One can be influenced by his peers in ways he might not be aware of, but this influence is noticed when he returns home or to his former environment, be it positive or negative. When we decide to change let it be in a positive way. Never change to please anyone unless it will not displease God.
Peer influence has become a common thing these days and it’s mostly experienced by young adult. But before you decide to change, think of the future; will you be proud of taking such a decision? Are you making a decision because of the support of your peers? How does your decision to change affect you physically, spiritually, emotionally, academically etc? But as young Christians we have to take our stand, we will be parents someday and won’t want our kids to be influenced into doing negative things.
So why not go for positive things as the bible says in Phillp4:8, things that we won’t come to regret later or wish we didn’t indulge in. We need to understand that we can’t please everyone so our focus should be in pleasing God, because if you keep on trying to please people you might end up not pleasing anyone and hurting yourself in the process. Therefore the best option is to be yourself and work at pleasing GOD.
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