Proverbs 13:20

Proverbs 13:20

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

    
       People can be very easily influenced by who they hang out with. That is why it is heavily stressed by older wiser people that we need to pick our friends very carefully. A good friend can bring us up and help you in your spiritual walk while a bad friend can lead you down the path of destruction. A good friend will help you with everything in the right way while a bad friend can suck you into the world and its way of thinking.
      Because of our sinful nature we tend to follow the bad friend's influence because usually its a lot more appealing to us because its what our flesh wants to do. When we follow what the bad friend wants us to do, we will grow farther and farther from our Father. We need to be able to chose our friends so that they will encourage us and not bring us down.
     In Proverbs 18:24, it says that a friend is closer than a brother than we need to choose who those people will be very closely because siblings and family will influence us greatly in our lives. our friends are the ones who know us the best and who care about us and our future. They will be the ones who help us through difficult situations and help us make big decisions. If we don't have a good friend that is closer than a brother than where will our lives go?
     We need to be very careful in who we let into our lives and those we let influence us.