"Good and evil don’t belong together. Light and darkness cannot share the same room." (2 Cor 6:14, Easy-Reading-Version ERV) "And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." (Gen 1:3) Life begins the day you realise that you can't be everything to everybody. Your life takes the required drastic turn the day it dawns on your consciousness that you don't have to please everybody - as a matter of fact, you should not live to please anybody. The only person you are created to please is God, your maker (Ecc 12:13). Life exists in binary form - good or evil, life or death, righteousness or unrighteousness, light or darkness. The only way to start living is to pick a side. Divide and Conquer!.
If we want to make the most out of our lives, we must learn to stop playing by double standards. We have to stop living a lie. We have to stop being different things to different people. Be yourself - sounds like the simplest advice you can give to somebody. But for some people that is the hardest thing to do. We cannot claim to be walking in the light and yet accomplishing the works of darkness. We cannot claim to be children of God and yet exhibit such evil characteristics which even the devil himself will be afraid to exhibit! The reason why it is as if our christianity isn't working is because we are not sincere. We say we are christians, but we hate, envy, lie, fornicate even more than unbelievers. We fail to create the needed divide between righteousness and unrighteousness; we fail to divide light from darkness.
The word of God says that light and darkness cannot share the same room! Wow! What a mess we have been making of our lives trying to play both sides. Some people actually think they are getting away with playing both sides - going to church and living in sin, professing to be a christian and indulging in worldliness. They assume as long as no one sees them they have gotten away with it. But that is just another lie the devil tells them to keep them doing what they are doing. Can a man mock God? Whatever we sow is what we reap. (Gal 6:7) If you want to be a child of God and reap the full benefit of being a christian, make the effort and divide yourself from darkness. The Bible says let he that calls upon the name of the deaprt from evil (2 Tim 2:19)
Do you want to conquer? Do you want to be victorious as a Christian? Divide light from darkness, and stay firmly on the part of light. Don't cross over every now and then to see what those in the dark side are doing? Pick a side, pick God's side!