WATCH THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

Almost everything in life is influenced by the association you keep. Your circle of intimate friends will play a very important role as to how you fare in life and what becomes of you. If you move with the wrong people, you will lack what you should have, suffer needlessly and prolong your journey towards destiny fulfilment. The truth is that you hardly can rise above the company you keep.

If you move with people who speak unbelief and tell you that what God puts into your heart to do cannot be done, you will never achieve great things in life. Even if greatness is accidentally thrust upon you, or something great is bequeathed to you, or you attain some level of greatness by any stroke of luck or coincidence, you will never be able to sustain such greatness. In fact, if care is not taken, that greatness may eventually destroy you because the prosperity of fools has a tendency to destroy them (Proverbs 1:32).

Similarly, there are people who seem to enjoy sin and drink iniquity like water (Job 15:16). The Bible tells us that evil communications corrupt good manners (1 Corinthians 15:33). If you company with people who walk in unrighteousness, it is only a matter of time before you learn their ways. That is why we are told never to have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness (Ephesians 5:11). That is also why we are told to flee every appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22).

Friends, be careful who you follow. Watch the company you keep. Receive grace to dissociate from every unfruitful relationships in Jesus name.