September 1, 2004
PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:03 pm
Worldliness
"If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you."
John 15:19
Some years ago, musicians noted that errand boys in a certain part of London all whistled out of tune as they went about their work. It was talked about and someone suggested that it was because the bells of Westminster were slightly out of tune. Something had gone wrong with the chimes and they were discordant. The boys did not know there was anything wrong with the peals, and quite unconsciously they had copied their pitch.
We tend to copy the people with whom we associate; we borrow thoughts from the books we read and the programs that we listen to, almost without knowing it. God has given us His Word which is the absolute pitch of life and living. If we learn to sing by it, we will easily detect the false in all of the music of the world.
Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you live a Godly life, not a worldly life.
"If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I ...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother's heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it?"
~C.H. Spurgeon.
"If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you."
John 15:19
Some years ago, musicians noted that errand boys in a certain part of London all whistled out of tune as they went about their work. It was talked about and someone suggested that it was because the bells of Westminster were slightly out of tune. Something had gone wrong with the chimes and they were discordant. The boys did not know there was anything wrong with the peals, and quite unconsciously they had copied their pitch.
We tend to copy the people with whom we associate; we borrow thoughts from the books we read and the programs that we listen to, almost without knowing it. God has given us His Word which is the absolute pitch of life and living. If we learn to sing by it, we will easily detect the false in all of the music of the world.
Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you live a Godly life, not a worldly life.
"If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I ...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother's heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it?"
~C.H. Spurgeon.