How much of the World are you of?

As a Spirit filled, born again, follower of Christ, how much of the world are you of? How are we to live in the world, but not be 'of' the world? 

It takes waking up to how much the world has gotten in us, and turning the other way, renewing our mind to not be of the world. Especially in today's world.
Do we believe the world when it comes to our health, science, doctors?
Do we believe the world when it comes to safety?
Do we believe the world when it comes to raising our children and educating them?
Do we trust and believe the world's system more than God, his Spirit and his word?
Those with college degrees and the highly educated? Government? Entertainers? TV? News? Our job or employer?

 
What about the utility companies? What about everyday things we use? Who made them and why? Do we trust and depend on them?
What about our food? Where did it come from? Who made it? What is in it? Is it real food or poison?
What about travel? Do we trust those that made our cars and trucks? Planes?
Computers, tablets, phones, laptops and other electronic devices... who made them and why? What are they made of and what do they do to us? Do we trust those that made them?
What about our furniture, our houses, our pillow, and every possession we have? Who made them? Where did they come from and what are they made out of? What was the motive for making them?

How have we gotten so indoctrinated by the worlds systems that we are dependent on them? Do we believe we need them to not only survive but to thrive?

We have allowed our children to be taught by the world system and government. Have we sacrificed ourselves to the world system, and been lulled to sleep by the worlds comforts so much that we have forgotten who we are?

WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?


John 12:46 "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness."

John 17:14-17 "I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth."

James 4:4-6 "…don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble."

John 2:15-17 "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever."