20 The people of the world believe certain basic things. You died with Christ as far as things like that are concerned. So why do you act as if you still belong to the world?
why do we act as if we still belong to the world?.. this is a big question for me.. truly.. I am not easily led by what someone else thinks about me.. but I am finding... that apparently being different is harder for me than I thought... when I gave myself to Christ completely.. He changed my mind and my thinking... and I felt like no one else really understood how I think.. even people in ministry seemed to have some worldly views about some things.. and that threw me off.. and I think that made me think that maybe I am wrong.. maybe I am not supposed to be so different from the world as I had thought... maybe it is not right to be so separated that you think about the things you do before doing them...
so I think I allowed my mind to go back to the world a little bit... and even though I wasn't doing anything physically.. in my mind I think I was thinking things out.. and determining that maybe that is normal.. maybe it just isn't real to live a life so far above the natural mind... so maybe I could concede some things...
I had asked God for clarity in this issue.. and I think today I have received it... I think God is telling me today that what He puts in my heart for me to do may not be what someone else is told to do.. or maybe they are not willing to do it.. maybe they are not willing to completely forsake worldly lifestyles.. but for me.. that IS what He said to me.. that IS what He is expecting from me.. and because He has said it to me.. anything less is sin.. for me.. but it is not for me to tell someone else what their sin is.. and judge them for their actions.. it is for me to do what I am told to do.. and focus on me...
and because God has called me to righteousness and purity.. I need to allow Him to re-cleanse my mind of the thinking of this world.. and live what He is calling me to live.. without looking at how anyone else is living.. as it is none of my business..
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