BREAK WITH THIS WORLD

By A. W. Tozer

Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:17

      I dare to say that Christians who have genuinely come to love and
trust Jesus Christ have also renounced this world and have chosen
a new model after which to pattern their lives.

      Further, we should say that this is the aspect of the Christian life
that most people do not like. They want comfort. They want blessing.
They want peace. But they recoil from  this  radical, revolutionary break
with  the world.

      To follow Christ in this rough and thorough-going way---is too much
for them!

      Actually, the true Christian dissents from the world because he knows
that it cannot make good on its promises. As Christ's believing disciple,
he is not left without a "norm" to which he seeks to be adjusted.  The Lord
Jesus Christ is Himself the norm, the ideally perfect model, and the
worshiping soul yearns to be like Him.

     Indeed, the whole drive behind the Christian life is the longing to be
conformed to the image of Christ!

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.