The little plant may grow out of a pile of refuse and be surrounded by filth and covered with the dust that floats on the breeze, but its white roots are separated from the unclean soil, and it leaves and flowers have no affinity with the dust that settles upon them. After a show of summer rain they throw off every particle of defilement and look up as fresh and spotless as before. Their intrinsic nature cannot have any part with these defiling things.This is the separation which Christ requires and which He gives. There is no merit in my staying away from doing what pleases me, but which HE abhors if I have a strong desire to do them. There is no value in my abstaining from the foolish novel if I am continually wishing I could have them. My heart is there, and my soul is defiled by the desire for evil things. It is not the world that stains us, but the love of the world. The true Levite is separated from the desire for earthly things, and even if he could, he would not have the forbidden pleasures which others prize.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 11:43:33 +0000
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