Do you find yourself

....as you grow in Christ and realize the gift we have and who we really are in Christ and realize more and more what it means to be in this world but not of this world..do you find your self withdrawing more and more from this world. Do you find your thoughts lost in Christ yet also seeing more and more the evil lost world around you? Are you able to feel the enemy stalking you yet also find yourselves at peace in the lord.? When you are around some people can you sense the evil or lost spirit some people have. Sometimes I literally feel the spirit of Christ in me so strong my spirit just wants to leap out of my flesh hand in hand with Christ and run to heaven to literally worship at the feet of our father...but the lord keeps telling me "Its not time yet...rest in me". I am just so in love with Jesus. Do any of you just long to be in heaven so much sometimes that you just cry and find it difficult to be in this world?

brokentulsa wrote:

......do you find your self withdrawing more and more from this world. ..

My family did this so much that we found that we were not impacting anyone around us for Christ. Between homeschooling, sheltering our childrens hearts, getting rid of our television etc. We kind of found that we had little to no interaction with the non-Christians in our community....which wasn't a great thing with regards to sharing the gospel. We have vowed to get more involved in our community.

Staybrite wrote:

brokentulsa wrote:

......do you find your self withdrawing more and more from this world. ..

My family did this so much that we found that we were not impacting anyone around us for Christ. Between homeschooling, sheltering our childrens hearts, getting rid of our television etc. We kind of found that we had little to no interaction with the non-Christians in our community....which wasn't a great thing with regards to sharing the gospel. We have vowed to get more involved in our community.

It can be hard to define the limit between "in" and "of" this world. A lot of my friends aren't Christian, but I hang out with them until they start doing things that would cause me to stumble.

For my part, I want to be an international missionary someday, but I don't know if that's my calling yet. I would have to go out into the world, but not become of the world, to be a missionary. Striking that balance is tough.