January 12, 2024 – Your Friends Make A Good Mirror

Your Friends Make A Good Mirror
January 12, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 1:15-17
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

 

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

      As a young boy, my father would offer me wise counsel, although at that age, I did not regard it as such. In my youth, I viewed it as if some older guy did not want me to have fun and was speaking ill of my friends—friends whom I believed he didn’t even know. He would say things like, “You become who you hang around with,” or “People judge you not by who you are, but by who you associate with.” Did I believe him? Not really. Was he right? ABSOLUTELY!

      At the time, my friends did not seem so bad to me, and my dad didn’t really know them well. However, what he did know was that they were heading in the wrong direction in life. Their lives lacked direction, and they had absolutely no Biblical desires. If they did, they certainly did not show it. What he understood was that if I continued to associate with them, others would judge me to be just like them. Worse than that, he knew that after a while, I would indeed become just like them. He was right, and I did.

 

      Had it not been for the grace of God and His life-changing salvation, I might be where many of them are today: broken, unhappy, addicted, mean-spirited, and some, even dead. However, because of the prayers of Godly parents, the visitation program of a few churches, and a revival speaker, God took hold of my life. I now serve God and not myself. I now have immeasurable joy. I’m no longer addicted to the drugs, tobacco, and alcohol that once ruled my life. I now have a different set of friends who are godly. Moreover, Jesus is now my best friend.     

 

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

     People still judge me by my friends, and I’m proud to be associated with those individuals. They pray for me and help me stay accountable to God. What do people think of you today? Do you want to know? Just take a look at your friends. They reflect who people believe you are. Friends serve as a good mirror.

 

If friends are a good mirror,
what reflection do you see?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and todays Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

 

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: JANUARY 12, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
        Genesis 19-Genesis 22     /     Proverbs 1:15 – 17

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
     Genesis 27-28     /     Matthew 9:18-38