Compromising with the World

I have being having an email discussion with one my TorahBytes readers about the challenge of being in the world, but not of it. I think one of the reasons why we have the kind of difficulty with this that we do (especially in our North American context) is we don't see the world for what it really is.

This use of the word "world" is not referring to the creation, but the unbelieving world system and the various ways it expresses itself.

It seems that many of us believe that we can be friends with the world at some level. Perhaps if our eyes were open to see the world's true evil nature, we would not so readily compromise as we do.