Who do you have to be around to be on your best behavior?

Who has to watch you?

Believer, what person has to be around for "you to be on your best behavior," as the saying goes? Whose opinion makes you shape up? Who has to be around for you to be all that you can be?

To the believers in Philippi, Paul said, "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling," (Philippians 2:12 ESV)

There is something to be said for the walk of faith that can enjoy accountability from people but doesn't require accountability from a specific person. In other words, there should not be a person that gets our best behavior. We should be the same person around all people because we are responding to our Father, not to those people.

When we are anchored in God, HE holds us accountable. When God is our wind, HE moves us on. We enjoy people, but people are not our security blanket, our motivation, or our reason for good behavior.

Let us be led of God, no matter where we are!
Let us be led of God, no matter who is or isn't around!