Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham.

At the end of Animal Farm, George Orwell’s classic parable about Communism, there is a scene in which the pigs, who have taken over running the farm after the humans were chased away, have a meeting with surrounding farmers. The other animals, watching from outside the farmhouse, make a shocking discovery:

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Orwell’s point was that the distinctions between the leaders of the revolution and those they had replaced had been blurred away.

We are not supposed to be like the world. There are no similarities between God and Satan, and the difference between their children should be plainly visible. Keeping your life separated from the world preserves your testimony and effectiveness for God’s Work.