Proverbs 13:20 (NIV) Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.
Anyone who follows a foolish person will put himself or herself into trouble. But the one who walks with the wise will save both himself and his family.
The wise is the one who follows wisdom. Wisdom is the right application of knowledge. When a person uses the knowledge he or she has gotten rightly to better his life in every aspect, such a person is wise.
There's wisdom in the way we run our relationship. Your partner is not your opponent, so you are not hunting for avenues and resources to fight or attack him or her. If you follow those who teaches you how to fight your partner, then you are a fool. When you always season your relationship with the salt of peace (even at your own expense) then you are wise. Mark 9:50 (KJV) Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
There's the type of wisdom we need in managing our homes. Even if our resources are small, we should manage to grow the home since life is progressive. We should train our children ourselves in the way we want them to be. We should keep external parties from our home (by that I mean we should avoid taking advice and suggestions from outsiders which could only help in pulling down our home). When we start using other people's initiative or promptings to run our home, it might collapse. Then we are foolish.
There’s the wisdom in doing our business. Business is supposed to bring us money. If we use methods that don't generate the expected income, we should be wise enough to look out for what should be done for the income to come. Continuing in the same thing even when there's no tangible results is foolishness.
There's wisdom in the way we run our ministry or invest our talents. When you copy those who have succeeded in the ministry by practicing what you have seen in them and adopting their principles, you are wise. Ignoring the sacrifices that led others to success in their various fields of endeavors is foolishness.
So, let us follow those who are wise. How do we know those who are wise? We will know from the results they have. Let us stop accompanying the fools. And also we will know the fools by their results.
