Come out

 December 21 – Come out - 2 Cor 6:17

 

    Paul cries out over the centuries.  Come out from them and be separate.  This however has nothing to do with communal living.  There once was a group of Christians that read this verse and so they had nothing to do with the world.  They never once went out to win a soul.  They became as Dr. Gordon Franklin put it, “A happy holy huddle.”

     God doesn’t want us to drop out of the world.  He wants us to live in the world but not be part of it.  Luke 6 says that we are to occupy until He comes.  We can live in this world and not be stained by it.  That comes by walking and living in the Spirit.

     It is Paul’s desire that we not let  the world be an active part of our Christian life.  Romans 12:2, says that we are not to conform to the world but to transform it.  Separation doesn’t mean isolation.  It means being part of the world’s affairs and people’s of the world’s lives but not allowing them to rule or influence you.  You rule and transform them through Christ.