How to avoid being misled by anyone

Many young people are confused today because they were advised by wrong persons: friends, cousins, classmates even acquaintances.

 Confusion..

Text:Act 15: 22-29

Bad advice may lead youngsters to the following:

 Smoking

Immorality

Sleeping around 

Drug abuse

Taking Shortcuts in life

Ritual killing

Unseriousness with studies and lots more.

 Thereby derailing from all the wonderful values parents, teachers and elders have inculcated in you.

Why?

It's just because you listened to the wrong person.

3 Ways to avoid being misled by anybody:

1. Don't ever forget your root;

 By this I mean never forget the moral values your preachers, teachers, parents and guidance have taught you.

Moral values can be any of these:

Honesty

Generosity

Doing right thing at the right time

Hard work

Respect for human life

Charity

Dignity

Family

Integrity

Fear of God

Inscribe these values on your heart, for you are going to need them in the near future to shield and defend yourself when bad / evil friends prop their heads.

2. Be confident

Try as much as possible to know and understand who you really are and what you want in life. 

Most people tend to give in to almost every suggestions made by their friends due to the fact;  they lack a unique voice of their own.

Never allow other people to control you, don't ever give them such right.  

Oftentimes, most teens give in to bad advice just to belong to the 'clique' and to avoid being called  ' a Jew-guy'.

But if you are confident in yourself, you won't be bothered with what people say about you insofar as you're doing the right thing.

Therefore, draw an imaginary line no bad / evil friend can ever cross around you.

This is because you've got your life to live not theirs.

3. Ask for the help of the holy Spirit:

The holy Spirit is the only one that gives us the grace of discernment ( ability to choose between wrong and right).

If  you're not filled with the holy Spirit, you won't be able to differentiate bad advice from good ones when such advice comes from a man of God, your parents, siblings, trusted friend and teachers.

So you see, by strength shall no man prevail. We all need the help of the holy Spirit of God to avoid being confused or misled by anyone