Our Activities Tell on Us

We tend to hang out with those we would enjoy being accepted by and become like.

There is an old saying, "if you got caught up in a bad crowd, you are the bad crowd.

1 Corinthians 15:33 "33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

Many people who claim to be Christians enjoy the company of superficial Christians much more than those who are deeply invested in the Word of God and truth.

When we become devoted to the word of God, measuring everything we say and do according to that, we will attract friends who love Christ in a much more real way.

An appearance of righteousness is the most important to those who enjoy superficiality, happiness and an elevated status among the superior crowd. This crowd never speaks about Christ but show up at every church event to enjoy the antics there.

A born again believer sold out to Christ will never fit into those cliques that seem to dominate the average church in the communities.

If you love the Lord and don't seem to fit in anywhere, then you are right where Christ wants you. We are not called to become like the world or be liked by the world, we are "called out ones."

John 15:18-25 "18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He who hates Me hates My Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.
25 But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’"

2 Corinthians 6:16-18 "…16 What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” 17 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” 18 And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”…"

Our friends are clues about our hearts. What we love is demonstrated day to day in our lives. What we speak about, who we spend time with and what we enjoy, tells a lot about us.