{"id":6194,"date":"2016-12-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:58:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:58:29","slug":"day-12-i-against-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/25\/day-12-i-against-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"DAY 12: I Against The World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

 <\/strong>\u2018I can\u2019t be like the world, and the sooner I accept this, the better for them and me. It\u2019s better I come out clean and make my stand known so that the world can stop thinking that I may one day be like them. The hope that I may join their fold is what keeps them suggesting and approaching and enticing; hoping that I will one day see reason and join their gang. But I cannot adhere to the world. I know the evil world system is not necessarily in the material things that are usually considered as the world. The world is a psychology and a way of thinking. The world is a manner of life and a scale of priorities. The world is a pursuit and a purpose that is not in tangent with heaven\u2019s priorities. For these reasons, becoming aligned with the world is becoming a traitor to my God. I cannot give up the heavenly cause and the spiritual pursuit, and degrade myself into the dim lights of earthly living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world has its king, and I have mine. I am not angry at the world until it tries to insist I conform to its ways and bow to its king. I am of another Kingdom, and I bow to that King. I will make war against anyone who tries to push me into a mold that I do not belong. I have tried that old kingdom. It was pleasurable for a season until the bitter tastes of its unforgettable emptiness became overbearing. This was when I discovered the sweet fragrance of Christ, and although He always knew me, I was taken by surprise by the lavish pleasures found in this new Kingdom. Now that I have been delivered from the futility of living for the world and by the world\u2019s standards, how can I in all good conscience again return to the same vomit that I had thrown out of my system? Am I a dog to so do? The world system and I are irreconcilably irreconcilable; and the sooner the world understands this, the better for both of us. Likewise, the sooner I settle forever in this conviction, the better for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Lord, my stance is clear and irrevocable. Make me a perpetual enemy to the world and make my position abhorrent to the world. This is my desire so that we forever remain as sworn enemies on this side of eternity. I pray for this, in Jesus name. Amen.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 \u2018I can\u2019t be like the world, and the sooner I accept this, the better for them and me. It\u2019s better I come out clean and make my stand known so that the world can stop thinking that I may one day be like them. The hope that I may join their fold is what keeps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-30-pilgrim-reflections-and-prayers","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t