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As youths, it's almost impossible to avoid peer pressure. We can face this at a large extent in our schools, especially in the higher institution. When we get admitted into the higher institution, we come across all manner of people with diverse characters.
There's every possibility of finding ourselves in the midst of people that constantly try to enforce their kind of lifestyle on us which may have negative impact on our lives. Not giving in to them may make us appear strange among them. Sometimes, we feel it would be best to succumb to their will.
It can be really difficult living a life that is not approved by the people we meet with on a regular basis, even though we are living right. We are bound to receive criticism and discouragement. Most people who compromised the standard by which they lived was often because of the result of pressure they received from their peers.
Peer pressure can get to us if we are not careful. Our youthful age is a very sensitive time of our lives. Peer pressure is a weapon that the devil uses to fight against us. He uses this means to fight us so that we draw distant from God. He knows that the best time we can serve God effectively and be useful to Him is in the days of our youths.
Ecclesiastes 12:1 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Our youthful age is a very precious gift that we have. The devil is aware of this gift that we have and He will fight by any means to make sure that we don't make proper use of this gift that we have. One of the means he makes use of is through peer pressure. We face this experience mainly in our young age.
Peer pressure is completely normal. We should not feel terrible if we are often tempted or enticed by certain lifestyles of our peers. As long as we are humans, we can't fight against having appetites for some of these things. But where the problem lies is when we become influenced by these vices.
As tempting as the offer may seem from our peers, we should refuse to give in to their deceptive offers. All these things may seem great and pleasant right now, but later in the future we would have no taste for them. But by then, we would be faced with regrets for the actions we took previously.
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