(Dan Crabtree – The Cripplegate) Gregory of Nazianzus said of his good friend Basil in the fourth century AD that they “seemed to be two bodies with a single spirit.” Likewise, Aristotle defined friendship as “one soul inhabiting two bodies.” Without fail, we share the lives of our friends and they ours, for good and for ill.
That’s why Solomon so warns his son, and by extension us, to be wise when we make friends. He says in Proverbs 13:20 “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.” Or in Proverbs 28:7 “The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.”
God made friendship a mutual sharing of life, a two-way street. That’s as it should be. But because we are so indelibly shaped by the friends we make, Solomon says, we need to be careful to not make certain kinds of friends. The sage king writes in Proverbs 22:24-25, Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
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