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To Become Wise, Spend Time with Wise People 
By Rick Warren

“Spend time with the wise and you will become wise, but the friends of fools will suffer.” Proverbs 13:20 (NCV)

If you want to be wise, invite wise people into your life.

You dont need a lot of friends. You dont need to be popular. You just need a few good friends who build you up, not tear you down—who are wise, not fools.

If you hang around with fools, thats what you become. But if you spend time with wise people, you’ll grow wiser. Its like the old saying: If you want to soar with the eagles, you cant run with the turkeys.”

People grow best in community. You cant grow to spiritual maturity by yourself. God designed us to need each other. Wisdom shows up primarily in relationships.

You could become a monk and move to the top of a mountain and spend your life in silence and reading books; you would grow in knowledge, but you wouldn’t grow in wisdom. You can hold advanced academic degrees but still have your relationships fall apart; being educated doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wise.

The Bible says in Proverbs 13:20, “Spend time with the wise and you will become wise, but the friends of fools will suffer” (NCV). 

If I stand on the edge of a stage, and Im trying to pull you up while youre trying to pull me down, which is easier to do? Its always easier for somebody to pull you down than pull you up. But people who pull you down are not your true friends. Real friends pull you up. They encourage you in your pursuit of godly wisdom by offering their own.

Do you have anybody in your life who is sharing their wisdom on a regular basis? You need that kind of encouragement in your life if you want to be a wise person.

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