Professor of the gospel! guard against the world; it
is your undoing! Watch against conformity to it in your dress,
in your mode of living,
in the education of your children,
in the principles, motives, and policy that govern you.
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit by any known inconsistency of conduct,
any sinful conformity to the world,
any inordinate pursuit of its wealth,
its honors,
its pleasures,
its friendships, and
its great things.
Pray against the sin of covetousness, that canker
worm that feeds at the root of so many souls!
Pray against the love of dress, that sin that diverts
the mind of so many professors from the simplicity of Christ and takes the eye off from the true adornment!
Pray against a thirst for light and trifling reading, that
strange and sinful inconsistency of so many, the certain
tendency of which is to starve the life of God in the soul,
to engender a distaste for spiritual nourishment, for
the Word of God, for holy meditation, and for Divine
communion and fellowship. Yes, pray against the
spirit of worldly, sinful conformity in everything!
Reader! are you a professing Christian? Then guard
against a worldly Christianity a Christianity that
wears a fair exterior, so far as it is composed of church
attendance, but which excludes from it the cross of the
meek and lowly Lamb of God—a Christianity which
loves the world and the things of the world, "makes
a fair show in the flesh," speaks well of Christ, and
yet betrays Him with a kiss. Oh, awful state! oh,
fearful deception! oh, fatal delusion!
The world is the sworn enemy of your Savior; let it not
be your friend. No; come out of it and be separate.
[Octavius Winslow]
Romans 12:2 ... And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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