Imprisonment, Internment and Prison Bars!

Imprisonment feeds off a lifetime of un-grieved and un-forgiven hurts. Being imprisoned often times has nothing to do with "bars" of the literal kind... It is the inability to construct a future. Imprisonment can be all about where you dwell. If you are imprisoned by where you are...THEN MOVE!! If you feel captured in a place that is destroying you...then take action to break the chains. It is not vice that will set you free but grace. It is not thoughts that will move you to action. It is not words that change things but disciplines. When you cannot do it alone reach out for help...and when you can...be the hand that pulls someone up...DON'T STAY IN PRISON WHEN THE DOOR IS WIDE OPEN!

Worldliness

'If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15

Worldliness is not so much a matter of activity as of attitude. It is possible for a Christian to stay away from questionable amusements and doubtful places and still love the world for worldliness is a matter of the heart. To the extent that a Christian loves the world system and the things...in it he does not love the Father.

Worldliness not only affects your response to the love of God. It also affects your response to the will of God. "The world passes away... but he that doeth the will of God abides forever." (1 John 2:17) Doing the will of God is a joy for those living in the love of God. "If ye love Me, keep My commandments." But when a believer loses his enjoyment of the Father's love, he finds it hard to obey the Father's will.**

When you put these two factors together, you have a practical definition of worldliness...anything in a Christian life that causes him to lose his enjoyment of the Father's love (Your personal devotional life) and doing the Father's will (your daily conduct)... these are two tests of worldliness. Warren Wiesbe: (1 John..Be Real)