The Company

Have you ever played "Twenty Questions?"  It's an imaginary game teenagers hate to play with their parents -- I know I did!  Until I was a parent myself, all the question seemed pointless: Who's going? Who's driving? Who's going to be there?  By the end of the "game," I wasn't even interested in going!

 

Time with Jesus denotes evidence of a different life.  The religious and military leaders were amazed at Peter and John in Acts 4. Verse 13 says, " ... they marveled; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus." What a distinguishing attribute!  "Twenty questions" wasn't really a game; it was an act of loving and responsible parents who cared about the company I kept.  I ask myself, "what do others conclude by my responses and reactions to life? Do they reflect enough time in the company of Christ." This passage from Beth Moore's poem, "The Company I Keep" says it beautifully:

 

Let me be known by the company I keep - Eclipsed by Your presence that I may decrease

'Til all You have chosen this traveler to meet - No longer see me but the Company I keep.