“He that walketh with
wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” Proverbs
13:20
If you are a Christian, a believer in Jesus Christ, then you
belong to the Lord. Jesus expects certain things from believers, God said that
they are “…bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” 1 Corinthians
6:20 Bought with the blood of Jesus, chosen before the foundation of the
world, and died and rose again with Jesus Christ. That sounds really good to
me, I love being a child of God. Sure, sometimes it hurts not having the fun
the lost can have, but look what God has given to you, SALVATION! The writer of
the Provers thru the Holy Spirit wrote, wise men walk wisely and wise people
who walk disorderly walk in destruction. See, regardless what some people say
only a foolish Christian walk with fools, or lost people. My sibling brother
once used to say, “you are with whom you walk with”. He died at the age of 47
but this thought has always lived with me. He was exactly right because that is
exactly what God is saying right here thru King Solomon in Proverbs. When Paul
told us in 1 Corinthians 6:20 “…glorify
God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” He means with your
entire body, your entire existence, and then he adds “your spirit” that is that
which was made alive in salvation. Lost people have no living spirit about them,
that is what the Holy Spirit makes alive when you are saved. “Even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” Ephesians
2:5 The quickening is to make alive, our dead spirits are what God has
quickened. It is with our living spirit that God communicates with us. God calls
it the inner man Eph. 3:16, He also calls it the heart Rom. 10:10. It is what
God uses to talk to us and to teach us and to cause us to believe truth. God
tells us that our worship should be spiritual, that receiving and understanding
His word through our inner person or our heart or our spirit. This is why lost
people cannot understand God, this is also why God never talks to them, their
heart is dead. “For this people's heart
is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have
closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their
ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I
should heal them.” Matthew 13:15 Therefore they only do evil
continually, there is no good in them, they only live in darkness. Oh, they might
have some moral values good about them that we can see, but God does not care
about moral value goodness. If you are walking in this world with the lost then
their ways you will do, even if you do not recognize it. So, as a Christian God
bought you from the power of Satan and evil by His dear Son Jesus Christ. “Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the
servants of men.” 1 Corinthians 7:23 Why do you think God did that, so
you can walk in darkness with the lost? Paul went on to write “Brethren, let every man, wherein he is
called, therein abide with God.” V. 24 If you are saved you were saved for a
reason, a purpose and that is to walk with God and not with the lost world. We
are to “abide with God” the word “abide”
means – to stay or dwell - with God, it is not an option, but a command. As my
brother once said you are with whom you are walking with in life, walk with the
lost and your life is useless to the work of God. You are disobeying God and
you have no respect for the very one whom saved your worthless soul. Listen
closely to Paul in 1 Corinthians 7:22 “For
he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise
also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.” Let us define “freeman” - one freed away – that is freed
away from the power of sin and Satan. Since you have been freed away from sin
and Satan then stop serving sin and serve God, that is why God saved you, to be
His servant. If you are a Christian ask yourself this very question, “For do I
now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men,
I should not be the servant of Christ.” Galatians 1:10 The question is
real, we all need to ask and answer this question to ourselves. Does our entire
existence serve God? If it does not, then we are failing to serve God. People like
to make-believe that they serve God, but in reality, they are serving Satan as
a converted sinner, and Satan loves that. Revelation 12:10 “…for the accuser of our brethren is
cast down, which accused them before
our God day and night.” Every time you walk outside of God you give
Satan another reason to accuse you before God. That is not pleasing to the
gracious God whom sent His own Son to die on the wicked cross
to save your soul. Think about it!
