Is it peer pressure, or is it love?

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Is it peer pressure, or is it love?

John 15:9-17”As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. “ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. ”These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for a friends. “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name He may give you. “These things I command you, that you love one another.

The Scriptures are very clear in letting us know, how to show one another love. If we will just line our will up with another’s will, we show them love. When we line our will up with God’s we show Him we love Him. If someone is compelling us to walk with him a mile we should go two. We as Christians need to let them know we are willing to walk with them. We very well may keep them from going a stray, and on that walk, as we are lining our will up with theirs, we show them we love them. They learn of us and we learn of them.

When Christians see someone in with the wrong crowd, and that person young or old, is doing something not in line with God’s will. Our first response is, they are giving in to peer pressure. They are in with the wrong crowd. They better change or they’re going to hell. They better stop sinning. There is no hope for them now. Boy am I glad I didn’t fall into the wrong crowd like they did.

Open your eyes!! These people are looking for someone to love, and they have not found it in you, where they should have. Parents, your children are looking for love in all the wrong places. Because they are not finding it at home. When young adults are shone attention from the wrong crowd. They see that attention as better than no attention at all. They see it as genuine attention, because they have nothing to compare it to. These people young, or old, are getting something from the world that shows them love. Someone is lining their will up with their’s, and even if it is evil it is still lined up.

When we as Christians start doing God’s will we will find out what love is and how to love. As Christian parents, we need to do like Jesus. Put your will in line with your children. That will show them how to love, what to expect in love, and what is love, and what is not. We cannot keep every evil from our children, but we can show them through our example how you love someone, and when the wrong love comes along they will recognize it and choose what is right. We must not let children go out into the world and think love is; never getting their way, always having to be forced into situations beyond their control. Never send them into the world thinking that love is a lie and you must deceive others to get your way in love. Never let your children think, the truth is not in love and when you want someone to love you, you need to put on a show. Never let your children think, love is what you say, and never what you show. You tell your kids you love them. But loving them is putting your will in line with theirs. IT IS NOT! Doing your will and never considering theirs. Your children are your biggest responsibility. You must love them by putting your will in line with theirs. Do not get caught up in the worlds chaos. Your children do not have to be just like your neighbor’s children. If you love sports it is your will, it may not be theirs. If you love music, it may not be their will. If you like to read, it may not be their will. If you are in line with God’s will the one you love, young, and old will see it. If your will is in line with the worlds, the ones you love will be confused as to who they should line their will up with.

God gave us a free will so we would choose Him because we want to. Not because we are forced in any way. He lets us know in His word, our life would be abundant if we accept Jesus as our savior. He tells us if we follow Him, we will know the truth and it will make us free. God never gives us any reason not to follow after His will. The world will give us plenty of reasons not to follow God, but it is lie.

Do not lie to your children. If you want to show them love do their will. Would you want God and His Son Jesus Christ, that you love, to leave you in someone else’s care. Do to your children what you want for yourself. Be truthful. Do not just tell them you love them, show them love.

It is never to late to show love God’s way. God’s word tells us love never fails.

Love is what your loved ones are looking for. Let them find it in you, as you line your will up with theirs. If you see a loved one go a stray. Do not blame peer pressure, it is love and the lack of it.

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