This world is not my true home. But, while the Lord leaves me stationed here, I need to live in a way that will bring honor to him, being faithful to the calling he has given me.
Jesus prayed, not that God would take them out of the world, but that he would protect them while they were in it. The prayer below makes clear that we are in this world but not of it. But just what does this mean?
“My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it” (John 17:15-16).
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