Friendship and Faithwalk

Last week we learned the importance of living out your faith and finishing the Christian race well.  This week we look at the part that friends and personal associations take in our faith walk.  Too many today compartmentalize their lives topically; this belongs to work, this to church, and this to family.  The truth is that our faith in Christ is to permeate every facet of our life; filling every nook and cranny so to speak.  Some today rationalize away their friendship and associations as not belonging to the sacred aspect of life, but rather their secular aspect.  But they forget that we have been called to be an influence; to be salt and light in the secular world.  Believers get themselves into trouble when they try to marry the two; coming away usually having compromised and losing their influence and ability to impact their world for Christ.  Jehosaphat learned that lesson when he tried to enter into an association with Ahab.  It’s a lesson we would do well to heed.