What You Love : The Company We Keep - 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1

Often the people we associate with shape and change how we live. Good company can point us together towards a good life and behavior that is God pleasing. Yet at the same time, our friends, family, and those closest to us can point us in the wrong direction. They don't have the same values, the same beliefs, or the same priorities. This is significant, because it means we can be shaped by those that we love and care for, and can be pointed away from God. Jesus himself, associated with sinners. He was not changed by us, but by the Holy Spirit, called, shaped, and formed our hearts to follow after him. While in this world, we do get led astray, Jesus joins himself with sinners, and saved us by making us his own people. By the Holy Spirit, he leads us to follow after him, and by being around him, we are shaped and formed to live as he calls us to. Jesus shapes and forms us to follow after him, by not being yoked to unbelievers, but rather being near Jesus and being in community with his family.