Follow the leader

I say how easy it is to follow the leader!

But, I warn, be careful whom you follow!

Started reading Proverbs the other day. Nice and slowly. It's the kind of good solid biblical realism that works inside of you. Not all at once, but just ingrains itself over time. The message today, from the first chapter of the book of Proverbs warned of following a bad guy. If you follow the wrong guy, you end up becoming like him. The implicit directive that this is not good should be well heeded. I think at times it is easy to find oneself admiring the wrong people.

Who do you hang out with? How do they influence you?

The caution on spending time with the wrong people is prefaced by the notion that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. There is conceivably here an indication of whom we should be following first, and that is by far the better alternative.