If you’re a man, do you play with toy cars? Probably not. You did as a boy — but there came a time when driving a real one was more fun, and you just quit playing with the others. You didn’t give up toy cars; they gave up you. If you’re a woman, do you play with dolls? Probably not. You used to — but one day a fellow asked you out, and you discovered something better! You didn’t give up dolls; they gave up you. And when you fix your eyes on Jesus and you find out that He’s flooding into you His resurrection life and power — you don’t renounce a life of sin; it will renounce you. There are two ways of walking from London to Edinburgh. You can walk backwards all the way, looking back at London; or you can turn your back on London and walk with your face toward Edinburgh. There are two ways in which you can be separated from the world. You can say, “I am renouncing the world,” or you can look toward the Lord Jesus and say, “Lord, I am coming toward You;” and every step you take toward the Lord you will find yourself further from all the rests of those other things.
D.G. Barnhouse
