My mom always told me be careful who I associate with. I needed to make sure that my friends were bringing me in the right direction. I always feel like I had good friends and bad friends. Some friends I new who were more well behaved than myself and others who were trouble, at least relative to me. I thought I was kind of the middle player in my group of friends. I asked the kids in the confirmation class who were their good friends and who were their bad friends. The boys knew exactly what I was talking about, but one student said she didn't think she had any bad friends. I took that either to mean she was the bad friend. She said she had just distanced herself from those she felt had been pulling her down.
Either way I think there is something wrong with that. We need to surround ourselves with people who inspire us to walk closely with Christ. The people who influence us should be those who draw us toward Christ. But we also need to be deep enough into the lives of others that we don't simply avoid the "bad" people. We need to engage and love and draw them toward Christ. We can't do this if they don't know us or care what we say or think. So let's try to find those people on both sides of us. Those we can influence for the good, but also those that can help us stay grounded and pursuing our Lord and Savior.
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