Today, Jehovah can use our family, friends, or the elder them to support us. But when we really feeling bad, sometime we can’t want be around anybody. We can just want be by our self. It normal to feel like that. Wetin we can do for Jehovah to support us? Try hard to not stay away from people. When we stay away from people, most of the time we can start thinking only about ourself and the problem them we going through. This type of thinking can make us to not make good decisions. That true, sometime all of us need time to be by ourself, especially when something really bad happen to us. But if we stay away from people for long time, we will not be able to get the help Jehovah giving us through other people. So we must accept the help from our family, friends, and the elder them. Try to see that Jehovah using them to support you.—Prov. 17:17; Isa. 32:​1, 2. w24.01 24 ¶12-13

Nazirites vow to not cut their hair. That was one way to show that they give their self to Jehovah. Sad to say, certain time in Israel, they never use to respect the Nazirites or encourage them. Sometime, it use to take real effort for the Nazirite to stick to his vow and be different from other people. (Amos 2:12) Other people can notice that we also different from them when we choose to obey Jehovah. We need courage to tell our friend them to our working place or in school that we Jehovah Witness. And when people behavior in this world continue to get worse, it will be really hard to live by what the Bible say and preach the good news to other people. (2 Tim. 1:8; 3:13) But always remember that we can “make [Jehovah’s] heart rejoice” when we show courage to be different from people who not serving him.—Prov. 27:11; Mal. 3:18. w24.02 16 ¶7; 17 ¶9

Think about the way the brother them in Rome came from different-different background. Some of them were Jews who learn to obey Moses law. But some of them came from different countries and they were having different way to do things. Some Christian them were slave and some of them were free people. Maybe some of them were having their own slaves. So how they still continue to show love for each other even though they were coming from different-different backgrounds? The apostle Paul encourage them to “welcome one another.” What he mean? The word they translate for “welcome” mean to be kind to someone, like inviting the person to your house and making them your friend. For example, Paul told Philemon how to welcome his slave Onesimus who runaway. He say: “Receive him kindly.” (Philem. 17) Priscilla and Aquila knew about Christianity more than Apollos, but still they welcome “him into their company.” (Acts 18:26) The Christian them way back came from different-different background. But they never allow that one to cause problem among them. They love and welcome each other. w23.07 6 ¶13