SWAYED
Today's reading: Hosea 1-7

"My people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners, picking up their evil ways..." Hosea 7:8 NLT

I've always heard the saying about being 'in the world, but not of the world'.

I've always thought it applied to big, newsworthy things. The worst of sins. The blatant slaps to God's face.

But to see the word 'mingle'?

That's a word that denotes a surface relationship, a passing thought, an informal association.

Or so I thought.

It's an action word. It's a word that relates to bringing people together. It's a word that shows me how easily I can influence another--and how easily they can influence me.

It's a way sin can easily slip in, unnoticed, quietly and supposedly harmlessly.