Meaningful friends are scarce to find. Over time, life and circumstances have a way of seeding out light-hearted friends away from people’s lives, and when that happens to you, it is quite normal. However, for those who share your values and goals, make it a personal ambition to put in some effort to keep them. That is how you choose your friends.
Offences are everywhere, especially in families, churches and workplaces. Nobody can prevent them from happening because Jesus said they are bound to come. So, even if you are the nicest person on Earth and a master of relationships with diverse kinds of people, you cannot prevent people from offending you or creating a mess among the people you fellowship with. So, focus on living in peace with people.
God wants you to thrive, and peace plays an important role. Live in peace with others as far as it depends on you. Do your possible best to foster peace in your interpersonal relationships. It will help you stabilise your life.
Don’t bring selfish ambitions to team gatherings. It doesn’t help. Yes, God can give you extraordinary visions to pursue, which is good because it will not make you settle for less. But learn how to separate such ambitions from your team activities and pursue them as God gives you the enablement.
God was raising a whole nation through Abraham and his family line. So, He was meticulous not to allow people from just any tribe to marry or have children with them. God still defended Abraham because He wanted the Holy Seed, which was (and still is) Christ (see Galatians 3:29), to be well preserved. That’s it!
While there are laws and court systems in several nations that don’t grant mercy to those who plead guilty for a course, be thus reminded that God’s Word is powerful, and you ought to live by the principles written therein. Have mercy on people and do good to them.
People are more valuable than their actions and gifts. That is why God doesn’t give up on anyone, including you. Why? Because He knows how to transform someone from a dungeon in life to a glorious position to help many others. Instead of paying back evil for evil, do good in response to evil.
The devil is an expert in blinding you from the cost of betrayal when you attempt to do evil things against someone you serve, whether in ministry or at the workplace. He has a way of making you desire to steal money without telling you that you can get imprisoned. Be smarter than him, and when you feel overwhelmed with bad things happening at any place you are, go back to God and ask Him clarifying questions.
It is in Christ a child of God can learn true forgiveness, which has the power to make one drop all forms of vengeful thoughts against the offender. If you know how much God has forgiven the debt of sin you carried in your life, it will be very easy to forgive others no matter the extent of offence they have done against you.
When the scripture says live in harmony with one another, God isn’t saying that you’ll not have problems with people. No! He knows you will, including the one you are married to (or will marry in future). He knows you will face problems with colleagues at the workplace, fellow believers in church, and other people from various areas of life. But He is telling you to be wise in how you live with them.
There is an element of evil in every single individual on the face of this earth. Just that, when a person has God and lives in the consciousness of Christ consistently, it helps him to live doing good to people continually.
In your interactions with others, be cautious about what you say. Some people who try to engage you in conversation are not doing so because they genuinely want to hang out with you but because they want to get something against you to gossip about. Just be careful.
