About a mile from my house, right beside the road, is Boynton Spring. It flows year-round and I often see people stopping there to get fresh, clean water. Last spring, we had tremendous storms with the ditches full of muddy run-off. But the spring still flowed with clean, clear water. It flowed about twenty feet on one side of the road and then turned into a culvert under the road, and out on the other side, where the clear spring water joined the muddy turbulence. I could actually see both waters flowing side-by-side 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 mixing and disappearing, 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?” When both streams mixed, they didn’t both become clear; they both became muddy. Make no mistake, bad friends pull down good friends. Think about it.
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