YOUR BEST FRIENDS ARE THOSE WHO BRING OUT THE BEST IN YOU
Tell me who your best friends are, and I will tell you who you are, if you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl, but if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to greater heights. Proverbs 27:19 ( TLB) says "A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses". The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you closely associate- for the good and the bad.
Think about it, almost all of our sorrows spring out of relationship with the wrong people, the less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve, any time you indulge mediocrity in others it increases your mediocrity. A Bulgarian proverb confirms, " If you find your -self taking two steps forward and one step backwards, invariably its because you have mixed associations in your life".
Remember he that walketh with the wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed
We become like those with whom we associate, we need to be careful to the kind of insulation we use in our lives, but we should never insulate ourselves from godly counsel and wisdom.
Its better to be alone than in the wrong company, a single conversation with the right person can be more valuable than years of study, when you surround your self with the right kind of people you enter into God's ordained power of agreement.
Ecc 4:9,12 ~~ Two can accomplish more than twice as much as one for the results an be much better. If one falls the other pulls him up, but if a man falls when he is alone he is in trouble ....and one standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back to back and conquer, three is even better, for Triple braidedcord is not easily broken.
NOTE: LOOK CAREFULLY AT YOUR CLOSEST ASSOCIATION, BECAUSE ITS AN INDICATION OF THE DIRECTION YOU'RE HEADING!
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