GIVING UP THE WORLD
A man once said to D. L. Moody, "Now that I am converted, must I give up to the world?"
"No," answered the evangelist, "you need not give up the world; if you give a ringing testimony for the Son of God the world will give you up pretty quick. They will not want you around."
(From a sermon by Steve Shepherd, Our Walk in This World, 4/4/2011)