“Be separate” (2 Corinthians 6:17)

The Christian, while in the world, is not to be of the world. He is a pilgrim, passing through, not making covenants with darkness. He’s a working ambassador of the Kingdom of God, a soldier doing battle for a race blinded by the god of this world. As such, he doesn’t “entangle himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier” (2 Timothy 2:4).

Christ warned, “he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matthew 10:38-39). To him, “to live,” should be “Christ.” Whether he eats, or drinks, or whatever he does, he should do all to God’s glory. He lays up treasure, but it’s in Heaven, “an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you” (1 Peter 1:4).

You may have pleasure; but when you’re happy, sing psalms and make melody in your hearts to the Lord. Always cultivate a sense of His presence, delighting in Him, and seeking to know and do His will, and thus prove you are of Heaven. If a thing is right, even if you lose by it, it must be done; if it’s wrong, though you would gain by it, you mustn’t touch the unclean thing.

“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers …what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God” (2 Corinthians 6:14–16). “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them” (Ephesians 5:11).

Don’t let your eyes become the windows of lust which are soon to see the King in his glory – don’t walk in Satan’s filth when you’re soon to walk Christ’s golden streets.