I'm afraid the child was right. By Charles Spurgeon. Luke chapter 9, verse 23. If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me. John chapter 10, verse 27. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

There is too little separation from the world among professing Christians nowadays. I do not wonder at the question a little girl asked her mother when she had been reading the New Testament. Mother, don't you think it would be very nice if we could all move away and go and live where there are Christians? Her mother said, Why, there are many Christians around us. Oh no, Mother, not like those I've been reading about in the New Testament. I am afraid the child was right. There are few New Testament Christians even here.

I wish there were many more who in all things did not follow the fashions of the world and the follies of the times, but walked with God in the separated path where the footsteps of Jesus are clearly seen. He who is on the Lord's side, let him follow the Lamb wherever he goes, cost what it may. Yours is not to reason why. If you are a soldier of the cross, the follower of the Lamb, then it is yours to do whatever Jesus bids you to do in His Word. Allow no reservations. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever He goes.

Revelation 14.4 Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

1 John 2.6