Separation for Success

Hebrews 13:13 KJV

Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

Notice the energy in the voice of the Apostle. There is no hint of

• Despondency
• Sadness or
• Defeat

He is not asking us to hang our heads and admit surrender to the forces of this world. He sees bearing the reproach of Christ as a mark of

• Courage
• Honor and of
• Victory 

Here rests the problem with so much of today's Christianity. It measures victory in the ability to assimilate with and make unions inside the camp. It has no intention of heading outside the camp, let alone of bearing reproach. It finds those things distasteful and repugnant to their own ideas of success and victory.

The mark of the genuine believer is separation from this world. We do not have to be mean spirited; we should not be. We are not called to be obnoxious in personality. But we are called to be different; to come out if this world and to make no friendship with it.

Let's do what the Apostle urged us do. Let's meet Jesus outside the camp and identify with Him rather than the world.