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A Call for Separation

Written by Brigitte Straub

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“Therefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.  And I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty” (2 Corinthians 6:17-18, KJV).

I was reading through the book of Ezra the other day and felt myself enter into a situation and place in time that I believe we are currently living in today as a people — a time and call again of separation.

Ezra was calling God’s people to become separate.  After having taken pagan wives unto themselves, Ezra wept before the Lord and called them, who had gone astray to once again, walk in the ways of the Lord and separate themselves from those things which were ungodly.

There is a separation that takes place where we no longer desire to keep one foot in the world and one foot with God.  There is a separation that takes place that releases the cries of our hearts to be consecrated unto God in such a way where we want nothing to do with darkness, but yearn daily to be clothed with heavenly habitation.

God is calling us to be separate.  His Spirit gives us the strength and the power to walk in His ways and by our obedience and complete surrender to Him — dying to our flesh and being led by the Spirit — we can walk in the ways He has commanded us to walk in.

Some of us have gone astray and are living lives and making decisions not based on God’s ways, yet still call our selves Christians (meaning, “little Christ’s or little anointed ones”). Some of us are not walking the walk or talking the talk and have become a “two faced” people, where we are one way in one moment, and another way in another moment.  But, in His great mercy and immeasurable grace, God says this:  “If my people, which are called by my name, shall, humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and forgive their sins, and will heal their land” (II Chronicles 7:14).

Let us be people willing to walk the highway of holiness and be separate, not dabbling in darkness. God is calling a people unto Himself where there is no mixture.  I truly believe that we are coming to a place in these times, where the standard is being raised, and a trumpet is blowing a “Wake Up” call for The Church to walk in righteousness and live lives according to the ways of the Lord.  It’s time to live out of pure obedience.  The dark is getting darker, and it is time to rise up, and shine our lights before men, rooted in separation.

I challenge you today, as Ezra and the people did, to go before the Lord and confess your ways and seek His face, turning from the ways that have hindered you from being completely His alone.  Abandon yourself again to God and yield Your spirit to Him, allowing Him to take you into Himself and making you His very own.

Heavenly Father, forgive me for not walking according to Your ways and for fulfilling the lusts of my own flesh.  Today, I confess my sins to you and desire to walk again in Your ways and live according to your commands; to walk in holiness and in righteousness. Amen.

Questions: Are you walking in obedience and complete surrender to Him? What is priority in your life?

About the Author Brigitte Straub

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3 Responses to “A Call for Separation”

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• Em says:

  May 24, 2010 at 6:34 pm

  Thank you for this, I’ve been convicted of this lately. Sometimes it is so easy to have a ‘whatever’ mentality in this day & age, especially with our work environments. I pray God continues to convict us of His Presence. “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.” (Isaiah 55:6).
• Shari Noble says:

  May 22, 2010 at 10:03 am

  Thank you, Brigitte. As I quieted myself before the Lord to consider my surrender to Him, I realized how much I’ve been stirred up in my own spirit to fight back against these evil forces that seem to be rising up around me. To surrender all to the Lord brought me to the place of being separated to Him. “Where He guides, He provides.” Thank you, Heavenly Father.
• Jennie Ellis says:

  May 21, 2010 at 6:21 am

  I was moved in a powerful way by this devotional this morning. I have been discipling our 14 year old adopted son about this exact message for weeks and it really confirmed all that I have been saying. I see him cross that line between living in darkness and living in the light so often. He came out of years of foster care and it is his tendency to deceive and hide and I can’t wait to share this with him and also have the opportunity to tell him how much I was impacted by the words for my own life. Thanks for these words today.

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