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INFLUENCE

Text: 1 Corinthians  15:33.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Some years back, while living off campus as an undergraduate,  my next door neighbour had a particular secular music he plays every morning. The lyrics of the song was nothing to write home about but he always put it on  loud speaker nonetheless. 

I had gone to him more than once so he could reduce the volume. (because I  had no right to tell him the kind of song he can listen to). I went to him not just because it was obscenely loud, but because I don't want to  have anything to do with such music.

Lo and behold, I  caught myself singing that song one day. I had learnt the song unconsciously, albeit unsolicitedly.

We live in a world where everything around us is competing for the space of God in our lives. Here, you are either being influenced or you are influencing others.

At times,  we get influenced passively just as I was in the story I recounted above. But whether passively or actively, we get influenced one way or the other. 

The two gateways whereby we get influenced either positively or negatively are our eyes and ears.

That's why Proverbs 4:23 says Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

To guard your heart is to guard what you see and hear. You may not have control over somethings you see and hear, but you sure have control over what you choose to meditate on out of all you've seen and heard.

We have a lot of unsolicited negative messages to battle with as it were, don't add to it by intentionally joining yourself with evil people. 

Here is God's express instructions to you- Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
What agreement has Christ with Beliar b? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For we are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” d
 *Therefore, “‘Go out from their midst, and be separate,’ says the Lord, ‘and touch no unclean thing,’ and I will receive you.2 Corinthians 6:14-17.

BIBLE READING: 2 Samuel 13:1-22.

PRAYER FOCUS

1. Father,  give me wisdom and grace to break ties with every one wrong person I  have joined myself with.


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