Dear Younger Self: A Letter from Your Future
Part 3: Choose Your Friends Wisely

Proverbs 11:30 (NLT) – The seeds of good deeds become a tree of life; a wise person wins friends.


Three Qualities to Help You Choose Your Friends Wisely:

1. Relational Warmth
1 Peter 4:9 (NIV) – Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.


2. Life-Giving Words
Proverbs 11:9 (NLT) – With their words, the godless destroy their friends, but knowledge will rescue the righteous.

Proverbs 18:19 (NLT) – An offended friend is harder to win back than a fortified city. Arguments separate friends like a gate locked with bars.

Proverbs 26:18-19 (NLT) – Just as damaging as a madman shooting a deadly weapon is someone who lies to a friend and then says, “I was only joking.”

Proverbs 18:21 (MSG) – Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose.


3. Godly Wisdom
Proverbs 12:26 (NLT) – The godly give good advice to their friends; the wicked lead them astray.

Proverbs 13:20 (NLT) – Walk with the wise and become wise…”

“In the past eight years, I’ve intentionally mentored sixty-four guys. Most report that they have a deeper, more meaningful walk with Jesus than they did before the next generation mentoring experience. They are disciples…learners and followers of Jesus. To my knowledge, none have fallen away. All are still married. All are involved in a church. All are attempting to raise their kids in the faith. And from what I can tell, they are, to varying degrees, walking with God.”
—Regi Campbell

Proverbs 27:17 (NLT) – As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.