A PECULIAR PEOPLE

1 Peter 2:9-10 (KJV) "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God:"

I think one of the saddest things about churches today is they no longer want to be considered "peculiar". Like the Israelites of Samuel's time they no longer want to be a peculiar people but "normal" people, just like the Israelites wanted to be a "normal" nation and have a real flesh and blood king they could parade around like all the other nations. But we are called to be a peculiar people, a people like no other on Earth. Indeed a people  so peculiar they live their lives as citizens of Heaven who are visitors and strangers upon the Earth. 

An early writer (130AD) who called himself "Mathetes" (meaning "The Disciple") gives a beautiful description of the unashamedly peculiar manners of those first Christians who are also our brothers and sisters in Christ. You can read it at  ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.iii.ii.v.html . 

We are to be a people who do not hold any one of us to be more, or less, important than any other of us but equally united in a peculiar love found nowhere else but in Christ. We are not a people bound by a common purpose as "normal" groups and associations are, we are a people in-dwelt and empowered by a single Spirit, who serve a single master and are the beloved children of a single God.

We are a peculiar people who do not plan for the future so much as seek to discover and  follow the plan that we know has already been laid out before us. A peculiar people with a peculiar destiny. To be as ONE in complete unity with Christ Jesus just as He is one with our Father (John 17:20-23).

A people who do not so much believe in life after death ( for on the last day some will not die but be changed in the twinkling of an eye), but rather a people who believe in life beyond Earth.

The Apostle Peter asks us a question we must each decide the answer to when he said: 

2 Peter 3:10-11 "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be?"

I and my brothers and sisters in Christ are a peculiar people, and for that I give thanks to The Lord.

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