If you want to grow in wisdom, spend time with the wise. Walk with the wicked and you’ll eventually become just like them. Proverbs 13:20 TPT
There comes a time in everybody's life, when you have to take decisions that will impact eternity. One of these decisions revolve around the company you keep and the people you keep close to you. Everywhere you turn to in the Bible, from the story of Rehoboam to Shechem to Amnon, you find the consequences of bad company. And it is clear: there is no sitting on the fence on this one. At one point in time or the other, the decision you have made will show.
It is a clear choice between two extreme positions. It is between choosing wisdom or following wickedness. For a man who knows and understands the power of purpose, you get to make this decision carefully. You can pretend to be what you are not, but your motives and intentions will be made manifest by the output from your life. Purpose drives pursuits and priorities. Imagine then, if a man has not discovered the reason why he has been planted where he is. He is bound to be busy with the wrong things.
What you spend time with will eventually flow out of your life. You become what you spend time with. If you spend time with the wise, their wisdom becomes a part of your guiding principles. If you spend time with the godless and the wicked, just give it time; you will begin to speak, act and think like them. This is why the decision on your company cannot be taken lightly. God wants me to impact my generation for Him. He wants my life to be a channel He can flow through. Would you let Him? His time of favour is here.
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