Eyes Eyes Ears Ears | Your friends are your future

⁸ Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. ⁹ They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. Proverbs 1:8-9 (NIV)

Wisdom is having the God-given skill to live well in this world

¹⁰ My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them. ¹¹ If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent blood, let’s ambush some harmless soul; ¹² let’s swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; ¹³ we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder; ¹⁴ cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”— ¹⁵ my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths; ¹⁶ for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood. Proverbs 1:10-16 (NIV)

“In the early stage of your life, you were shaped most  by your family. But for the rest of your life you will be shaped largely by your friends. You become like the people with whom you spend the most time.” - Tim Keller

¹⁷ How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it! ¹⁸ These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves! ¹⁹ Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it. Proverb 1:17-19 (NIV)

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” - C.S.Lewis

• The public space
• The social space
• The personal space
• The intimate space

Who sits at your table of influence?

• Work chair
• Wisdom chair
• Well-being chair
• W.O.O (Winning Others Over) chair

²³ Repent at my rebuke! Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings.  Proverbs 1:23 (NIV)