This is the day.

Ezra 9:14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

This is the prayer of God's people toward God in the days of Ezra the priest. The people had been busily engaged in rebuilding the Temple of God at Jerusalem, and in the course of trying to get right with God, had been told to separate from those who were not Jews. What a great thing for God's children to do! If only Christians today would realize that the realtionships that they have with the world are wrong!! These Jews were so afraid of God being angry that many of them "put away" even the wives and children that they had that were not Jews. How sad that we "Christians" today will not walk away from the world and will not fear God enough to separate ourselves from the world. When our "friends" become more important than church, or important enough to us to lead us into a compromising situation, that may or may not be sin, in which we have to either bend or break a standard, then is when God is not pleased and He WILL punish the offender. Why can't we give up the attitude that "we should all get along," and realize that, "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." James 4:4. Let's quit committing spiritual adultery, and mak God our "first love," and the most important part of our lives.