Clear Spring and Muddy Runoff

About a mile from my house, right beside the road, is a spring.  It flows year-round and I usually see people stopped there to get fresh, clean water.  Last week we had tremendous storms with the ditches full of muddy run-off.  But the spring still flowed clean and clear.  It flowed about twenty feet on one side of the road and then turned into a culvert under the road, and on the other side, the clear spring water joined the muddy turbulence.  I could actually see both waters flowing separately for a few feet.  But the rocky stream bed mixed the two effluents and soon both became one muddy flow.  As I watched the clear water “disappear” I was reminded of the powerful influence that bad companions have on good people.  Paul warned in II Corinthians 6:14&15, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?”  Make no mistake, bad friends pull down good friends.  Think about it.