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.
