Lisa Laugheed: "Run With Us"

This song was used as an outro by the Canadian cartoon series, The Raccoons back in the late eighties. It also climb the charts. The song is about loneliness and a call to join a group or gang. Hear it here:

The Bible says we need friends but we must choose the right kind. As Proverbs 1:10-12 (Bible in Basic English) warns, "My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them. If they say, 'Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;"

Foolhardy men are especially vulnerable to being misled. As Proverbs 9:17 and 18 (BBE) warns, "'Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.' But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld."

The best way to be immune to being led astray is to be wise. As Proverbs 28:7 (BBE) admonishes, "He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father."

The most important reason of all to stay clear of sinful people is given in 1 Peter 4:1-4 (BBE). "So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin; So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God. Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images; And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:"

So if he whom we must give account for our actions hasn't returned by Thursday, I hope to post about the kind of people we need to be.