The Lord calls His people to be holy. And since holiness and worldliness have always been great foes, it makes sense that God commands us to avoid conforming to the ways of our fallen society. As Titus 2:14 reveals, God desires us to be a “peculiar people, zealous of good works”, and there is nothing at all peculiar about someone who looks and acts the same as everybody else.

Of course being different for the sake of being different isn’t the key either. Though Paul often spoke of our minds being “renewed” (Ephesians 4:23; II Corinthians 4:16), it was only in Titus 3:5 that we were told exactly how this renewing should take place: that is, “by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.” This means that the work God desires to perform in your life cannot be accomplished by mere self-will or personal motivation; it takes an inward submission to the Holy Ghost which will then lead to outward holiness and, thus, a very noticeable difference between you and the world.

“For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren”

            -Romans 8:29

If you are saved, be reminded today that as a child of the living God (Romans 9:26), conformity to the image of Christ should be your top priority. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.” (I John 2:15) When you really think about it, why would we want to “fit in” with the world anyway when they have done all to ensure that God will never fit in with them?