Thoughts for Young Men, J.C. Ryle 3.6
Reclamation: Worship
English - November 03, 2019 15:31 - 8 minutes - 7.89 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This is the final reading from Part 3 of J.C. Ryle’s Thoughts for Young Men which holds General Counsels to Young Men. The sixth counsel in this section looks at the importance of choosing your friends based on their love of God.
Ryle discusses the importance of choosing friends because of the potential harm that can come from choosing ungodly friends.
He points out that we are creatures of imitation; that our friends influence our tastes and opinions.
He says, “Health, unhappily, is not contagious, but disease is.” and challenges his hearers to ask themselves, ‘Will this be a useful friendship to me or not?’
Ryle points out the benefits of good, godly friends and highlights the probability of ones wife being chosen among the connections of their friends.
The obvious conclusion here is that your wife will have an immense impact on your future spiritual condition.
Ryle closes with this profound thought, “But depend on it, bad company in the life that now is, is the sure way to procure worse company in the life to come.”
Intro created and performed by Isaac Johnson