Day 2: Nehemiah 13:3

Separate!

Many of us Christians, who are becoming more worldly, are not living as children of light, but rather, we are being engulfed by darkness while living mixed among worldly people.  As Oswald Chambers put it, ‘Today, the world has taken away much from the church, and the church has brought too much from the world, making it difficult to distinguish where we stand.’

Living a life where it's indistinguishable whether we belong to the Lord or to the world is certainly not the saintly life that the Lord desires from us.  This is why God commands us to separate from the mixed multitude (cf.: Neh. 13:3).  It is a call to no longer live in the sin-ridden world, pursuing worldly desires and thereby polluting ourselves.  It is a call to continue the reform movement, to pursue a work of renewal by the Word, and to live in separation from the world.  We must separate from the impious things of the world that are infiltrating the church.