Our Companions Reveal Us

If I am around people who think about small things, I will think about small things. If I am around those who love the depth of truth, I will think more deeply.

1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ."

Our culture enjoys superficiality and crassness that degrade our character when we hear them regularly. This is why God said, "Come out from among them and be separate."

As born-again believers, we ought to seek out those who speak God's truth and emulate the very love of Christ.

 
I confess that I do not know how to manipulate people to believe the truth. I am more open and honest, which this culture does not seem to be able to handle. They want calculated words of affirmation to create positive feelings.

When we dance all around the truth to create an environment that feels good, the truth gets lost, and only the feelings dominate. Considering how we come across can be good, but if we are focused on making someone like us, we will be useless to them and dishonest with ourselves.

 
Christ and the apostles didn't worry about causing people to like them; they never thought that, because of how friendly they were, those hearing will like the message. They spoke boldly, leaving the response up to the hearer.

 
Isaiah 52:11 "Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD."

Revelation 18:4 "Then I heard another voice from heaven say: 'Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues."