Show me your friends

You can tell a lot about a man by the company he keeps.

                  My friend and I were discussing earlier in the day and she said, 'Tomi I dunno who I am anymore'; it saddened me. I started asking her questions about her friends, and she began to realise that her friends were impacting her behaviour and her manner of thinking more than she knew. You see it started subtly, nothing big just little changes. She did not realise the big influence they were having on her.

Don't get me wrong now, I'm not saying you have to cut yourself off your non - Christian friends; all I'm saying is when you realise that the relationship is affecting your spiritual life then its better to loosen the ties.We are to love everyone - Christian or not - but we shouldn't let them have a negative influence on us.


It is your duty as a Christian to show people the path to righteousness and that is really what we should be doing with unbelievers and not forming deep ties of friendship.




Proverbs 13:20 "Spend time with the wise and you will be wise..."

Isaiah 41:10

I don't have much to say its just I was talking with a friend of mine and we were discussing about how difficult things are. And the way we were feeling discouraged. Not too long after I stumbled upon this picture, it was as if God was speaking to my spirit. I'm happy that in my time of difficulty my God will strengthen me.

My Ungrateful Heart

I look at my life and I don't see the good, all I see is the bad, the shortcomings. I was hearing the story of one of friends and realised that I had been ungrateful to God.

As a human being I have my wants and desires, the more I have the more I want and I made my every desire known to God. I forgot to express my gratitude for the things I already had and kept asking for more.

Instead of me saying thanks to God for the things I have I just keep asking for me. I forgot that my life was a gift and not my right. I forgot to say thanks for my life because I did not have the riches of the world. I forgot to say thanks for the fact that I had ears to hear because I wasn't hearing the things I wanted to hear. I forgot to say thanks for the food on my table. I forgot to say thanks for the air I breathe. I forget to say thanks for water.  I forgot to say thanks for my house.

I choose to make Thanksgiving my lifestyle. I choose to to remember to say thanks because thanksgiving will always be on my lips.

If you have ever felt like this why not take the today to remember the things God has done for you.

I'd like you guys to share something, anything you have to be grateful for; no matter how small, bizarre or inconsequential.

Will I trust in Him?

I was re-reading a book - I do that all the time - I love so much, AVoice in The Wind by Francine Rivers. The book was about a fictional character Hadassah who had to choose between her life and her faith in God. She choose to stick with God even though it would have cost her her life.

I was asking myself some tough questions, 'when the situation becomes intense, can I honestly say I am with God all the way?' When I'm put on the spot like Peter, will I say 'yes, He is my God' or will I answer like Peter 'I don't know Him'. Can I honestly say to myself and God, "Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will." If He slays me, will I still trust Him?

The truth hurts me to admit because I know in my heart that I cannot be like the three Hebrew boys - Shadrach, Meshach and Abdenego - and say in the face of being thrown in a furnace that 'I know that the God whom I serve is able to deliver me but even if he doesn't I still trust in Him'.

I was saddened that my faith was not as strong as the faith of the other humans who have walked the face of the Earth

But I'm working on it, spending more time with God and reading His Word because I know that persecution is part of the Christian faith. I want my faith to tower above earthly difficulties