The Highway Forums General Discussion Devotional Separation from the World

What an important exhortation!

"If any man does not take up his cross and follow Me, he cannot be My disciple." Is there any greater enigma than a supposed follower of Christ that does not follow Christ? Self-denial is fundamentally opposed by the world. At least, self-denial for the glory of God. If such self-denial is the philosophy of our lives, then we will necessarily stand against the world and the world against us.

Especially since, as you pointed out, we live in a world marked by self-aggrandizement. A world that falls under Jesus' condemnation found in John 3:19-21 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."

Men won't come to Christ because they don't want to admit that they are inherently evil and that the only good found in this world is the product of Jehovah's lovingkindness toward His elect.

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