If you want people to like you and to have the abundance of friends,
1) never speak your mind;
2) never speak the truth.
Do this, and people will like you. You will be their best buddy, their best pal.
Flatter them. Brag on their latest hair styles, their new dresses and suits, their fancy cars, and their beautiful children and grand-children.
Tell them they are your best friend ever, and without them, you would have no one to play ball with.
Go with them to their parties, laugh at their jokes, and listen intently as they brag on themselves.
Never interrupt them; never disagree with them.
In time, you will become: just like them.
You will like the things they like. You will dislike the things they dislike. Their tastes will become your tastes. You will dress as they dress, walk as they walk, and think as they think.
In time, you will become submissive to them, they will become your authority, and you will become their servant: for their ways are now your ways.
For now, you have been cloned. You are no longer an individual because you can no longer think for yourself. Your decisions and choices must meet the standards of others. If you disagree with the group, you will become an outcast: and they will no longer like you. They will give you the "cold shoulder". They will not answer your telephone call because they are "busy". Invitations to their parties and gatherings will cease to come to you.
Jesus knows how you feel. He understands your feelings of rejection. Not to be liked can hurt and be painful.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. (John 1: 11)
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isaiah 53: 3)
For even on the day when Christ was crucified, all of his friends fled from Him, and He stood alone as the voice of truth.
If you speak your mind and speak the truth, you will find yourself standing alone. Many of your friends will flee from you.
But if you stand up for Christ, you will not be standing alone.
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1) never speak your mind;
2) never speak the truth.
Do this, and people will like you. You will be their best buddy, their best pal.
Flatter them. Brag on their latest hair styles, their new dresses and suits, their fancy cars, and their beautiful children and grand-children.
Tell them they are your best friend ever, and without them, you would have no one to play ball with.
Go with them to their parties, laugh at their jokes, and listen intently as they brag on themselves.
Never interrupt them; never disagree with them.
In time, you will become: just like them.
You will like the things they like. You will dislike the things they dislike. Their tastes will become your tastes. You will dress as they dress, walk as they walk, and think as they think.
In time, you will become submissive to them, they will become your authority, and you will become their servant: for their ways are now your ways.
For now, you have been cloned. You are no longer an individual because you can no longer think for yourself. Your decisions and choices must meet the standards of others. If you disagree with the group, you will become an outcast: and they will no longer like you. They will give you the "cold shoulder". They will not answer your telephone call because they are "busy". Invitations to their parties and gatherings will cease to come to you.
Jesus knows how you feel. He understands your feelings of rejection. Not to be liked can hurt and be painful.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. (John 1: 11)
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isaiah 53: 3)
For even on the day when Christ was crucified, all of his friends fled from Him, and He stood alone as the voice of truth.
If you speak your mind and speak the truth, you will find yourself standing alone. Many of your friends will flee from you.
But if you stand up for Christ, you will not be standing alone.
www.bible.com
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