Mismatching

Mismatching There is no doubt in my mind that we are influenced by the company we keep. I have seen the evidence for this in my own life, and in the lives of my friends and family. I have seen good children turn rebellious and anti-social through the peer pressure of Public school. I have seen godly women led astray into adultery through the company of unsaved men. I have seen well-meaning Christian teenagers abandon their faith for the affections of an unsaved partner. I have seen good little children ruined by the bad example of other little children. The only person who was not influenced by the company he kept was Jesus, but even that took him some effort and focus, because the pressure was on him too to change his lifestyle. His disciples (unconsciously) tried to alter his path – Peter even tried to talk him out of going to Jerusalem to die – and all through his life from childhood upwards he had friends and family either mocking him or tempting him to go outside the Father’s will. His childhood friends, full of mischief and small sins must have put god, christians, christian, things, people, jesus, unsaved, example, before, because, seen, first, company, children, very, spirit, good, years, ways, separate, said, question, one, lives, life, friends, free, father, about, word, way, verses, through, think