Influences

As I was visiting one of my cousins in Kentucky, I was eating some left over homemade pizza for lunch. When I came to the crust I had noticed it was very dry and wasn’t appealing to my palette. I put the crust down on my plate, pushed it aside and grabbed a Country magazine I was looking at earlier. A few moments later my cousin exclaimed in a fake scolding voice “George, what are you teaching my daughter; she says she doesn’t have to eat her crust because you don’t have to.”

This is just a silly illustration of the influence we have on the people around us. Like my cousin’s three year old, people are going to be influence for good or evil by the way we behave and act around them. As a Christian we must live in a way that is Christ like so that our lives shine in the glory of God and in the love of Christ.