The Christian and the World

[329 words] Do you know what you look like when you dress like the world? The world. Do you know what you sound like when you speak like the world? The world. Do you know what you “smell” like when you commune with the world? The world. Do you know what you become like when you act like the world? The world. Note the following combined verses from the Bible concerning the Christian’s relationship to the world and worldly things, and consider the way you dress, speak, associate, and act: “Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God…Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him…And the world is passing away, and the…