Friday, May 28

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    Friday, May 28

    Bad associations spoil useful habits. —1 Cor. 15:33.


    Parents, help your children to choose good associates. Both mother and father need to know whom their children are associating with and what they are doing. That includes knowing whom their children are communicating with through social media and on their mobile phone.

    Those associates can impact how the children think and act. Many parents exert themselves to arrange opportunities for their children to associate with those who set a good example in serving God. For instance, N’De´ ni and Bomine, a couple in Coˆ te d’Ivoire, often invited the circuit overseer to stay in their home.

    N’De´ ni relates: “This had a very good effect on our son. He began pioneering and now serves as a substitute circuit overseer.” The earlier parents begin training their children, the better.

    (Prov. 22:6) Consider Timothy.

    Timothy’s mother, Eunice, and his grandmother Lois trained him “from infancy.”


    —2 Tim. 1:5; 3:15

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    And as he traveled on the road, one came running and fell on his knees and asked him and said, “Good teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” Yeshua said to him, “Why do you call me good? There is no one good but The One God.” —Mark 10:17-18 Pesshita Holy Bible Translated

    Later, while he was reclining at the table in the house, look! many tax collectors and sinners came and began reclining with Jesus and his disciples. But on seeing this the Pharisees began to say to his disciples: "Why is it that YOUR teacher eats with tax collectors and sinners?" Hearing [them], he said: "Persons in health do not need a physician, but the ailing do. Go, then, and learn what this means, 'I want mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came to call, not righteous people, but sinners." —Matthew 9:10-13 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    My personal opinion on this one is that I would've liked to have read of an example of how this is accomplished among families in any given congregation, rather than upholding a circuit seer as "a good example in serving God" and upholding organizational position as the target to hit if one seeks to be "a good example in serving God."

    In any case, I say with confidence that the importance of good association is incumbent not only on children, but especially adults, who invariably have far more "freedoms" and far less "surveillance" than children or even youth are given.

    Contextually, the situation the apostle Paul's addressing is that there were those in the Corinthian congregation of believers who were disputing the surety of the everlasting life which he and all believers of the first century anticipated being changed into imminently. Worse still, these ones were practicing sin in a "live, eat, and be merry-- for tomorrow won't we be dead forever?" way of living, manifesting their faithlessness, and evidently encouraging others to the same.

    Thanks, @Jinnvisible , for your time in posting these.

    --Timothy
     
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