One of the things God has taught me in the last couple of months is the importance of surrounding yourself with good friends, because it is a way to keep negative people out. Negative people are the ones that could never get out of a wet paper bag, because they just talk about getting out. While they do that, they are also making excuses on why they are not successful. And they also talk bad about the ones that are successful, and they keep others around them down with them. So the ways negative people act are the reasons why I learn to stay away from them.
I learned that all areas in life you will always have negative people, and that is especially true in areas like church. For example last Sunday when I was teaching Sunday School, someone came to my class before it started to what seems like he was trying to check on me. We had a dialogue made of questions, and one of them was how many students did I have? I threw out a number that was consistent to what we have, which I answered with the number eight. His responds to that was he says I was going to have probably two, because of the weather being cold. If I had two students, than I would have still been pleased with it. So, just because you are in church does not mean you escaped from negativity.
If people are always complaining, making excuses of not being successful, gossiping about others, then those are good signs of that person to stay away from that person. You could still be friends with that person, because that is what Christ would want you to do. But you can still keep a distance away from them to stay away from negativity, or anything they do that causes you to loss your trust with them.
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