Company Changes Your Attitude
In Number 11:1-6 we see an interesting lesson when it come to group life. We see the children of Israel effected by the company hey choose to keep. As the Life Groups Pastor of our church it is my joy to help people get into relationship that will build them up and help them to grow stronger in their walk with God.
But I am amazed at how often many of us don’t see the need for those kinds of relationship. Often we think we can go through life and it really doesn’t matter who I hang out with. God make clear to point out “the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites”. Now don’t get me wrong the children of Isreal are not without fault here. In fact in verse 1 we see they are already complaining. But God tries to get there attention. But because of the company they are keeping, and who they are listening to that lesson goes in one ear and out the other.
Here is the truth in this, who you give ear to will effect your attitude. My wife learned this truth several years ago. She noticed that every time she would get around her mom and her aunt together they would fall into a mode of “male/husband bashing” She came to me and told me that it was beginning to bother her and that she just needed to get up and walk away because she found herself falling into the same trap whenever she got around them. I am so glad she learned that lesson and had the strength and conviction to just get up and walk away. I think that is one of the reasons we have “stayed in love” for nearly 20 years now.
So the question is to you. Who do you give ear to? Now I know it is important to follow Jesus’ example and make friends with “sinners”. We just need to be careful that we influence them and not the other way around. But I do believe it is also important that we surround ourselves with those people who will encourage us and help us to grow closer in our walk with God. Who you give ear to will effect your attitude. So who are you letting influence you?
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