DAILY?READINGS: 2 Chronicles 30; Ezekiel 46; John 21
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof. 1 John 2:17
The simplest and best definition of worldiness I have come across is: “the love for passing things.” Another has defined it as “sharing the spirit of the age in which one lives.” By this standard the Church today is worldly. If we desire the worldly fashions, styles, toys and trinkets of the times, our spiritual reason eventually wavers, judgement is distorted, and modesty is abandoned. In contrast, “He that doeth the will of God abideth forever” (1 John 2:17). —W. Ross Rainey
Take the world, but give me Jesus,
All its joys are but a name;
But His love abideth ever,
Thro’ eternal years the same.
—Fanny J. Crosby