Who Influences You?
The people that you listen to, that you admire, hold sway over your opinions and worldview. They effect your judgment process and can influence the decisions that you make.
Proverbs 1:10-19 offers us a warning about people around us that may encourage us to sin:
My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, ?Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason; like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder; throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse?? my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths, for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird, but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives. Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.
((The Holy Bible : English standard version. 2001 (Pr 1:10?19). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.))
May 4th, 2010, posted by MInTheGap


