Jesus Christ changed my life over two decades ago. A few days after my conversion, I began to experience the blessedness of fellowship with other believers. What a joy it was to talk about God with those who believed just like I did! Of course, I was experiencing what had been going on for centuries. It’s called the family of God, and I was a brand-new, adopted member. George Swinnock spoke of how the company we keep can declare our destiny.Birds of a feather will flock together.…The young partridges hatched under a hen go for a time along with her chickens. They keep them company, scraping in the earth together. However, when they are grown up, and their wings fit for the purpose, they mount up into the air.
A Christian, before his conversion, is brought up under the prince of darkness, and walks in company with his cursed crew, according to the course of this world. But when the Spirit changes his disposition, he quickly changes his companions, and delights only in the saints that are on earth.
Servants of the same Lord, if faithful, will join with their fellows, and not with the servants of His enemy. The company they delight in—whether those that walk in the “broad way” of the flesh, or those who walk in the “narrow way” of the Spirit—will declare whether they are going towards heaven or towards hell.
1 Samuel 20; 1 Corinthians 2;
Lamentations 5; Psalm 36