Daily devotion – separated unto God…
Rom 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Paul was an Apostle, he was called, and he was ‘separated’ unto the Gospel of God.
This was a key and major strategy of Paul’s service to the Lord and something which we can all follow in our own walk with Christ. God is not looking for brilliance, genius or talent in His servants, so much as He needs men and women, boys and girls, who will stick to their task to that which God has planned and called them to.
Being separated does not mean being isolated. Don’t confuse the two! What God desires for us in ‘separation’ is not isolation but insulation. God does not save you and then have you go live a monastic life hidden in a cave somewhere. Away from reality and earthly problems. But God does want you to be insulated.
In the electrical world, the purpose of insulation is to prevent the transfer of leakage of power by putting a non-conducting substance around the transmitting instrument.
In the Christian life, the believer needs to be insulated against the disastrous and weakening effect of evil influences that surround them. God’s best insulation is a separation of our motives, our ideals and purposes from the worldly way of existence and living.
This means consecration, that is setting your self apart, giving Christ each day, for Him to guide you and lead you. Its reading God’s Word and obeying all that God ministers to your heart as you go about your every day business.
Its one hand on the Cross and the other hand on the Word of God and walking in obedience.
Today, is your life one of separation, or are you meshed into the world and its ways so much that you are drifting along with its current and tides? Its as simple as praying before you eat, no matter where you are and with whom you are. Its being faithful in fellowship and service in your local Church. Its saying no to the temptations of the flesh and the enemy each and every moment.
In the world but not of the world. During the first and second centuries the Church was in the world; during the third and fourth, the world was in the Church. Is that not the condition that we see now?
Let us not be this way but let each of us be separated…..unto God…!