A Great Recipe For Failure

  Here is some good advice: Don’t surround yourself with people that make you feel better, surround yourself with people that make you better.

  I’ve seen it in lots of areas, business, church camp, teams, committees, work projects, you name it. People will often want to put in their friends, people that agree with them, folks that don’t challenge them, into their inner circle. Yet it is often a recipe for ruin.

  Yes men don’t help you see problems. Friends might be more interested in having fun not achieving goals. The “cool kids” might not be the workers that get things done. It might be an easy fun group but it may also be a group that goes nowhere and gets nothing done.

Prepare plans by consultation, And make war by wise guidance

Proverbs 20:18

  The best friend you ever have is someone that tells you the truth even when it isn’t what you want to hear. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean they are against you. The devil wants you to feel good about your sin. An enemy will applaud for you when you are failing.

  Ingredients that make a great meal are not just all the things that taste great by themselves. It is when all the parts that complement each other that can be made into something great.