“And God divided the light from the darkness” (Genesis 1:4)

Every saint has two faculties at work within him. In his natural state, he was subject to one faculty only, which was darkness; now that God’s light has entered, the two faculties fight for supremacy. The Apostle Paul said, “I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members” (Romans 7:21-23).

God divides the light from the darkness in the saint. Darkness that once ruled, is challenged by the light. The one is in constant opposition to the other: a conflict that doesn’t stop until the saint’s corrupt body is supernaturally replaced with an incorrupt body (1 Corinthians 15:52-54).

The new faculty changes the thoughts, feelings and behavior of the saint. He begins to separate himself from the darkness of the world. He leaves worldly religion and  society, frivolous amusements, and seeks the company of other saints, for, “we know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren” (1 John 3:14).

What God has divided, never try to unite. Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners; and, as He was, so we should be. “If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you” (John 15:18).