Some people have minds and hearts that are so full of themselves that they see people around them as objects. A person’s value is based primarily on whether he or she is in agreement with their way of thinking and doing things, and secondly whether he or she has power or influence to promote the narcissist. Their motives are easily disguised with smiles and friendly chatter but if you follow their history it is full of havoc and trouble.
Making friends with such a person is like the frog who asked for a ride across the river on the back of an alligator. The frog never reached the other side.
Peter gives us insight on how to interact with the narcissist. “For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God” (1 Peter 2:15). Notice he does not say this will make them your friends, but that it will silence them.
