An exhortation to young people to make their companions those who fear God

Resolve that you're going to be a companion to Christ at a young age. Your friend group shrinks, like if you're really serious about it.

Not like, oh, I'm just on the fence and on Sundays I'm a Christian. No, I'm talking about Monday through Saturday you're a

Christian, and then on the Lord's Day you're a Christian. And if you resolve to do that, then your friend list is going to shrink.

But the companions that you will have, those who fear God and seek to follow

His ways, those are the companions you need. Those are the companions that as you grow in Christ, those are the companions that will show themselves actually beneficial to your life.

I get on a little bit of a tangent, but do you understand, and the people around here can tell you this, I'm not trying to be too pessimistic, but a lot of people in your life, they want to be in your life just so they can get out of your life for themselves.

Do you understand? They want to be part of your life insofar as your life is benefiting their life.

But when you make companions with the church, and some of you young ladies should be listening to this too, when you make companions with the church, when you come to Christ, you put your faith in Christ, and you're united with Christ and His body, those are the people in your life who really are for your good.

They see you at your best, they see you at your worst, and they are in your corner. They're for you.

They understand when you fall, they're the ones that are there, help you pick up, and let's run after Christ together.

These are the kind of companions that we want to make, because these are the kind of people we're going to spend eternity with.

It doesn't matter how tall they are, how short they are, how pretty they are, how ugly they are, how black they are, how white they are, how whatever, do they fear the