Cut Them Loose

Posted in One Year Bible, Relationships by PCraig on April 22, 2010

You can’t be close friends with everyone.  So, you have to pick and choose who you are going to spend the most time around.  Last night, at my leadership training, we discussed that a wise leader spends 80% of their time with the 20% who produce results.  That may sound harsh or cold, but a leader who is going to achieve all that God wants them to achieve can’t waste a lot of time on people who are going nowhere.

One of the greatest desires I have for my 12 year old daughter is that she would choose wise friends.  Proverbs 13:20 says, “He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”  I know that if my daughter hangs around wise people, she will tend to make better decisions, and their wisdom will rub of on her.  She’s already a smart girl, but I know she can even be wiser if she hangs around wiser friends. 

This stuff only makes sense, yet how many of us get caught up in foolish conversations with people who are going nowhere?  Have you ever bought into a foolish proposal by someone who didn’t do their homework and lived to regret it?  Remember that kid that told you, “We’ll never get caught”? (Famous last words!)  How about the guy who said, “You won’t get pregnant”?  See, as difficult as it may be, you have to choose your friends wisely.  Anybody in your life you need to cut loose? 

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