Get into the right mix!

Psalm 39:1 (NIV), Psalm 39:12 (NIV)

Who do you spend most of your time with? Where do you hang out? All these things will influence how you behave!

David is writing this psalm to Jeduthin, don’t know much about him but let’s imagine for a moment he was hanging out with the wrong crowd & King David drawing on his own experience exhorts him to recognise his way of living is totally alien to those he’s hanging with!

“I will watch my ways” (v1) be careful in your actions

“I will keep silent” (v2) near impossible for David as later he writes, “my heart grew hot within me… While I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke…”

If you have the life of Christ within you hanging around in the wrong mix will effect you either to cry out to God for the injustice or going with the crowd!?!

Consider v. 12: see the comparison “I dwell with you (God) as a foreigner…”

Is it any wonder then if you belong to Christ you are living as a citizen of heaven! Allow that which influences you to come from Christ rather than the world so that You can be world changers – influence it, rather than be influenced by it!

Live in the Kingdom mix today! You are a royal ambassador for the King of Kings!

Published by RichieGadget

Richie has been working with young people since 1992, in a variety of contexts, and in 2000 graduated from Moorlands College with a BA degree in Applied Theology/Youth & Community work with National accreditation (UK). Since then he has been involved in pioneering youth work as a Youth & Children’s worker in Berkshire, training and mentoring youth workers as a field work tutor for Centre for Youth Ministry, Oxford as well as engaging in local church work. Richie first started out in radio in 2000 with a temporary license and a show on Hope FM in Bournemouth - since then he’s been involved in various project with radio including working with 16 - 25 year olds on a millennium volunteers project in 2002 and from 2006 to 2008 worked as a volunteer for Hospital Radio in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, presenting request shows, breakfast and a Sunday afternoon specialist show. Richie moved to Ireland in the autumn of 2008 to work primarily for Spirit Radio Ireland in as the Operations Support Manager, as well as presenting a regular Saturday show and makes features and contributions to programming.