Your ShelfYour Projects

Separate from the World

17%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 12, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 51.

Read the full edition

Separate from the World

By Mrs. J. S. Padgett

MRS. J. S. PADGETT
“Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord.” 2 Cor. 6: 17. The Lord commands his people to come out and be separate from the world; to have no intimate association with the worldly. His people are to be as Christ was—not of this world. Jesus gave his life for them, that he might deliver them from evil. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” Our love is not to be set on earthly things, but on spiritual things. “They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.”
If we love worldly society and partake of worldly pleasures, and if we set our hearts on worldly prosperity, we are not following Jesus, nor are we making him our example. We are not obeying the commands of our heavenly Father. We must remember that the world is our Saviour’s enemy; that it is under the power and influence of Satan. It is his influence that works wickedness and disobedience in us. We must walk with Jesus so that God can cleanse and purify our hearts from love of sin and of the vanities of this present world.
We must be dead to the evil of the world, and alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Saviour. We must strive for fellowship with our Lord, for that which will raise us above sin, and keep us apart and distinct from it, so that we may honor and glorify our Father in heaven.
White City, Fla.