My God Wants Me To Be Set Apart

I'm going to share another heading from my What Do I Know About My God? notebook (see the What Do I Know About My God post in the May archives for further explanation). This heading is called "My God Wants me to be Set Apart From the World" (it was too lengthy to put the whole heading in the blog title). The Bible has a lot to say about this subject, and this is but a short list of some of the verses.

Romans 12: 1-2 (NKJV)
I beseech you, therefore, brethren by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable perfect will of God.

Ephesians 5:1-5 (NKJV)
But fornication and all uncleanness or coveteousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving thanks. For this you know that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolator, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sins of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Ephesians 5:8-11 (NKJV)
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), find out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them.

Ephesians 5:15-16 (NKJV
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Philippians 2:14-15 (NKJV)
Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and preverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.

1 John 2:15-16 (NKJV)
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. For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world.