When asked to name the most crucial decisions one will face in life, the average person can usually come up with quite a list. Among the obvious are things like choosing the right spouse, career, college, faith, and church. But did you know there’s a choice each of us must make every day that’s just as important as any of these and yet its significance is often overlooked? Who you choose as your friends will either make or break you, and it’s therefore sensible to assume that we should put some serious thought into this decision.

Though it’s often necessary to establish a line of communication with the lost in order that we may win them to Christ, Scripture clearly warns against close friendships between the saved and the unsaved. Unfortunately, many well-intentioned believers have been led astray by the person or people they thought they were witnessing to. The fact is, when you are trying to pull them up into grace and they are trying to pull you down into sin, they have leverage working in their favor and will almost inevitably convert you rather than vice-versa. Notice that today’s Scripture doesn’t say, “The companion of fools shall be destroyed unless he has noble intentions.”

 

Despite the importance of friendship, light befriending darkness is never a good idea (2 Corinthians 6:14). The result is always destructive, and you’re the one who will pay the price.