The flesh is a good servant and a bad master.
1 Peter 2:11- 15 is about separation by Christians from the world/worldliness. However, it's not a monastic separation. It's separation by our actions.
I'm somewhat fortunate in my ability to separate from the world. I've practically been trained in it.
But, as brother Tim pointed out so well, there's not a clean binary track that gets me in place. Retreating from the world is one thing. Linking to the kingdom of heaven is quite another.
One can be done by denying, not doing. The other? Sure, it means you resist temptation and sin. But the linkage to heaven most of all requires work. In the world and not of it.
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