GOD created everybody and everything to live by contact. No matter how distant a person may be or how detached a thing may be, there is a point of contact somewhere even in the mind. We all live by it in association and group, one having a connection and getting in touch with another in a chain-link relationship. With this, one has something to give or share with another knowingly and unknowingly. But we believe that in humans all contacts should be deliberate and unassuming.
It is the work of GOD that by this relationship one learns from another and imparts to another one's characteristics. Normally, therefore, we are all influenced by all contacts we make and we display the basic character of where we live, our home, village, where we come from, the group we belong, the church we worship, the gang, cult, occult or political party we belong, etc. The values and norms of these contact points are become our values and accepted norms. Sometimes our contact polish us, some time they endirty us, in fact, spoil us. And this establishes the importance of our contact points for good or bad. And we have seen how people change when they have new contact.
However, we now come to believe that if we spend our time always with a fool, the drunk, the wayward, the idolater, the angry, lazy, gossip, selfish, timid, lustful, wicked, deceitful, the thief, the harlot and people like these, we surely learn and copy from them, be inadvertently influenced in thoughts to display their character. Most people believe they can survive these situation no matter how close they are to them, we do not dispute it but GOD warned the returning Jews to be careful of their contact with the other nations round about them so as not to be spoilt by contact. Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:33 warns, “Do not be deceived, evil communication corrupt good manners.”
Yes, we can survive as GOD gives us the grace, yet we have witnessed people's mass departure from good to evil in our society due to wrong contact groups society maintains. Contacts were to transform us positively but it not so and our expectant new life in CHRIST is still an illusion, it was to give us strength to launch out into the depths of goodness but our contact help us to do evil the more. It was to enable us get assistance but the assistance we got is often for wrong projections. This is why many of us enjoy contact with the gossip, backbiter, scorner, and cluster around a bad-mouthed person.
We should have contacts that would expose us to goodness, good relationship, good service to GOD and man, proper worship, honesty, truth, obedience, and a culture of humility. But where can we have these contacts? We need a contact group for peace, self-restraint and good linkage. We believe to contact the wise, the skilled, hard working, dedicated and progressive but where is this group that parades these qualities? Who are the people we should get in touch with so that we imbibe their qualitative character? Let us turn to assess the group we belong. We belong to the church but when people in the Church refuse repentance the church cannot be a recommended contact group to transform us into goodness.
The church has now become a wrong contact group where evil and wickedness thrive and where evil contacts are perpetrated spiritually and otherwise. So many people go to church not for repentance but because the church is permissive of their evil nature. And sadly enough, we have seen and known many people who come from the church as their contact point to cause much trouble and commit crimes in the world today. And the tussle within the church itself cannot be emulated for this reason. And the church by contact may cause a societal decadence it does not know. Therefore, the church should be alive above mundane and unCHRISTian behaviour.
There is nothing that forestalls the goodness of the society and destroys its roots than the prevalence and zealous patronages of evil, wicked and rough groups of contact within the society containing those who do not seek or speak peace. Many people have preferred contacts with the cults for strength and elevation in committing crimes and for social ascendancy. They use this contact point to steal, rob, kidnap, call for war, rig election, foment trouble of all sorts. Look around and you will see many contact groups also who get collective strength to agitate, oppose as become self-seeking. Many others are in the occults for higher spirituality which is not godly and they are expanding, calling unwary members into their nets.
What can these people offer for emulation if one contacts them? Groups of evil contact are become very popular in the society today and they operate as if GOD is not alive and as if GOD is not interested. They seem to be very useful and important in the society so that politics and government cherish them and believe in these groups than in GOD. But what decency can they offer for emulation if they succeed by foul means?
The reality is that the church, politics, government, home, village, in fact where we have our base have given us a character, good, bad or both. But we know that all the crimes and wickedness committed in this world come from these descents groups. And these are where we belong. How can we exonerate ourselves from the crimes committed by our members? The contact group we belong may be the ones damaging this society, it could be our home, church, school, village, political party or government.
Think about what you can teach the society; think about yourself as a contact group, what goodness do you have that can better the society? It does not say of pretence, I mean your person and personal qualities operated from wherever you belong. Can anyone buy those qualities from you at a higher cost? As leaders, we may make sure that where we lead is not seen or suspected as a contact group for criminality otherwise GOD will require our accounts. And hence, if you are a contact point, make sure that you do not sell evil.
By contact with evil, Eve spoilt her husband and that her contact spoilt their relationship with GOD. Today many contacts with other people have dislocated many good relationships with others. By contact with the Philistine Chiefs Delilah's mind was bedeviled to betray her husband to be arrested and dehumanized. So are the contacts our wives have with other women and men that have destroyed husbands and homes. And by contact with the hateful and wicked High Priests Judas was empowered to betray JESUS his master. Who is our contact point? Have we cared to find out for sure? By contact with the old prophet, the man of GOD from Judah disobeyed GOD and died by the prompting of the old prophet. What advice do you give your innocent junior colleague if you are his/her contact point, or some one is learning from you?
The contact you have with another reshapes you into what you never thought you can become depending on what he/she or group it is. Do not tempt the providences of GOD. Do not be carried away by the praises your contacts sing about you.
Do not make devil your contact point otherwise you are for the grave. Make JESUS alone your contact point and He will choose others for you. Remember, your nature and what you give out to another can bless or hurt someone forever. But find out, are you a contact point for others and what type are you to your family, church, workplace, followers and every other person. Just think!
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