One Bad Apple...?

“Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life,

    but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.”

Proverbs 10:17

Contrary to the old saying you have probably heard – one bad apple can spoil the bunch and bad company does corrupt good morals.

How do you respond to discipline or correction?

Do you resent it?

Does it make you dig in your heels and take your own way regardless of those who counsel otherwise?

Or do you humbly receive words meant to redirect a wrong direction you may be headed in or a poor choice you are about to make?

Peers, friends and acquaintances, even family, can bring influence that leads to life or leads astray.

More importantly though is that you can be that one who listens well to correction and by so doing show others the way to life.

It is so simple to buck correction and discipline.

We can offer a million and one reasons why we refuse it.

But the reward of receiving it in your life is that it is then multiplied from you to others.

You can be the one who shows others the way to life.

Don’t reject discipline or turn away from correction.

Others are counting on you.