Dare to Separate Yourself!

How often do you judge yourself by the world's standards for acceptability and success?

Do you depend on people of this world to tell you how to live?

Do you allow worldly things to determine your value/worth?

How often do you just give in and blend with others of this world?

Do you ever get tired of not being accepted for who you really are?

"Come out from among them and BE SEPARATE" (2 Corinthians 6:17).


It is so easy to just conform to this world... But we are called to be IN this world, not OF it. We begin to just "go with the flow" and "roll with the punches," and we suddenly find ourselves trapped - constantly judging ourselves by the world's standards and depending on worldly things to tell us our worth.

It's time to stop caring what other people think. It's time to break away from the sameness. It's time to be confident in who we are/who we were made to be. It's time to live a purposeful life!

Here are some quotes from one of my favorite authors, Stormie Omartian, on remaining separate from the world:

• Those who get the breaks with God are the ones who first break from the world.
• Breaking from the world means recognizing our enemy (Satan) and refusing to be aligned with him in any way.
• Accepting the world's standards for our lives numbs our sensitivity to God's will.
• We need to separate ourselves from the world's habits and ways of thinking and destroy the high places of our hearts.
• You can't go forward if you cling to things that separate you from God.

(Praying God's Will for Your Life)


Challenge: Dare to be different. Dare to be yourself. Dare to separate yourself!


Why is it so easy to conform to this world, but so hard to be different?


Topics Discussed: Leadership, Life Application, Christianity