FRIEND OR FOE

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Some years back, I was in a seminar and the speaker told us to write the seven closest people to us- with our family members as number one. So we did wondering what he wanted to do with it. After we did, he asked us to look at the names we had just written and I began to ask what for as I perused through the names again. After some seconds of looking through the names, he said affirmatively “Do you know what you are looking at?” Half of the crowd said “No” while the other half which I was part of starred in perplexity. He continued, “You are looking at your future”. I was shocked as I initially did not understand what he meant until after some time of meditation and experience.

The truth is that you cannot be better than your association, or better put (in this context), you cannot be better than your friends. To narrow it down to what we are talking about, it is very funny how we have friend that are contrary to where we say we are going, but like the speaker said that day, they are your future. So, when you choose your friends, you choose your future (I’m the one saying this now). I think it was Dr Myles Munroe who said “Show me your friend and I will tell you where you are going” not just who you are.

Friends as far as I know are suppose to be people that have like values and interests as we do, so anyone that doesn’t may not be a friend but a foe. A whole lot of people we call our friends are just enemies in disguise. They may pretend to be our friends, in fact they may even be genuine but as long as where they are leading us doesn't look like where we should be going, they are foes not friends.

And what do you do to a foe? You keep away from such. Some of us will have to delete some numbers from our phonebook after reading this. Some may have to send a text message right now or put a call through and give good reddens to bad rubbish. Some of us may just have to silently avoid those people.

And mind you, some of these persons may not be bad people; it is just that their part in the story is over like Bishop T.D Jakes would say. Their chapter in the book is finished. Remember, Lot was not a bad person but until he left, Abraham could not see further. Jonah was not evil, in fact he was a man of God but until he was thrown into the ocean without emotional attachment, the ship was not at peace- Some Jonahs’ will have to leave our ships; from friendships to love relationships.

If these men who were not bad had to leave don’t you think it will be unfair to leave the bad ones? Think about it. Here comes the big question- Are your friends actually friends or foes?