John 17:15-17 (NKJV) 15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
Jesus came to us from another world.
Not another planet, but another world; the heavens, where He was with His Father since the beginning.
John 1:1-3 (NKJV) 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Because Jesus was not of this world, as He stated in verse 16, at the beginning of this devotional, we are also not of this world if we belong to Him.
As believers, we inherit the heavenly characteristics of Jesus’ lineage.
This does not make us equal to Him. It does, however, mean that we share in part of His mission and His purpose in life; to share the love and light of God with a lost and dying world.
As part of that heavenly assignment, it’s important to realize that we are not of this world. We do not belong to this world, its ways or those who live out those ways.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV) 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
We are to live and walk differently. We do not live or walk by the flesh, but by the Spirit of God. It is this that sets us apart from the world. And as we mature in Christ, we will begin to live differently, wanting to please God and glorify Him in our daily lives.
We are not here to despise those who walk according to the flesh, or to look down on them, but to shine God’s light for them to see. It is this light that is meant to draw them to God, as it shines through us in our everyday lives.
Let us work diligently each day to grow and mature in Christ, endeavoring to let God’s light shine more brightly to those around us, that we may show that we are truly not of this world but of the world that is unseen.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443
401-439-3780
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