I have noticed that if I stand for Christ and do what He has called me to do, I will not be accepted by many people or organizations from the world. But He did give me that warning in John 16:19

"If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."

I am not going to be in line with the world if I am in line with God and His word. My decision to walk in the spirit was to seperate myself from the world and everything it has to offer me. I see so many and talk with several who constatnly wonder why they are no further along in the walk with God. Some have been saved for years but are still "babes in Christ".

The reason I see here is they are trying to be a "Christian" but one who is holding on to certain things in the world. They want to be faithful to an extent until something comes along they would rather do.

I have to choose today to be a Christian and be one 100%. I can't try and please the world nor my friends who are in the world. If they choose to not hang around me any longer, I have to wash my hands of those relationships and seek God. How I wish all Christians would just quit trying to play on both sides of the fence and totally surrender their lives to God.

Prayer:
"Lord, I know I have many faults in my life but the one thing I pray today is for the strength and courage to stand for you even if it costs me my friends. I ask you to remove anything in my life that is contrary to your word and what you have for me. Help me to become what you want me to become and for me to realize that if the world hates me, I must be doing something right in your eyes because they hated you too. Amen!"