As the saying goes, friends are like flowers, they are lovely, they are special and can literally shape your future. The company you keep determines what becomes of your life. Having friends is good because everyone at some point in life needs friends around them, however, everyone around you is not really your friend. It is advisable to Pick out your friends wisely because the person you walk with has more power and influence on your life than you can ever realize.
Based on my personal view, I have marked down 6 categories of Friends below:
The first group of Friends are called Acquaintances, Some choose to call them friends, while others prefer to just use the word acquaintance but what they owe each other is just pleasantries.
The second group of people are the 'Dream swallowers'. We unconsciously move with people who are dream swallowers and destiny destroyers. The sad thing about them is that they will never come to you as a bad person, rather, they will give you the impression that they are the best friends you can ever have.
The third group of Friends are called 'Fans'. They like you for what you do and can make you feel really good but once you don’t have anything to offer them again, that ends it all. In this category of friends, one may not have an actual relationship with them.
The fourth set people are the followers. They are much closer than fans and you may choose them yourself. They will like something about you and decide to do life with you but they will never understand your true purpose. They are limited to only the things happening in your life at the moment and that’s it.
The fifth group of people who are 'friends' i mean are the real friends. They are people who care about you, who know who you are, who understand your purpose and supports your dreams. They know what’s really on the inside of you. A real friend fights for you, fights alongside you and never fights against you.
Check your list of friends and see if they passed these five things. Now you will agree with me that some friends need to dropped while some need to be cherished but I am not done yet, let us look at the last one.
Lastly, the most sincere friend you can ever have is God (Father). He loves and cares like no other. A lot of people have been broken emotionally because of what friends have done in their lives. Some lives out there should be speaking great volumes by now but they are not because of a single friend who killed that dream of theirs and everything went away. You need to understand who you are, you need to realize the price that has been paid for you. He chose to be your friend.
Until Jesus is enough for you, no friend can ever be. Only your father can tell you who you are.
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