Young Christians Calendar – Monday, July 20, 2020

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Dear Young Christian:

I was thinking today about the fact that we live in an evil world and that we cannot help but touch it in so many ways. With this in mind, we may well ask, how then can we follow the exhortation of the verse that tells us “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this … to keep himself unspotted from the world” (James 1:27)?

There is a certain insect which, though you immerse it in water, it never actually touches the water. This insect carries its own atmosphere with it at all times, and because it is enveloped in this atmosphere, though it is submerged in water, it is untouched by the water. In this way, we too can walk through a sinful, defiling world in the presence of the Lord and the enjoyment of heaven. Just as a boat can be in the water, but the water not in the boat, so we can be in the world, but the world need not be in us. The Lord prayed for His own, and said, “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth” (John 17:16-17).

Your Christian Friend,

Jim Hyland

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