SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE
I Peter 4:3-4
"For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles – when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you."
Nobody like to be considered strange, odd, different, peculiar, or weird. I like to fit in and be accepted as normal. Peculiar people are the focus of pity at best and jokes, derision, and ridicule at worst. But if I do God's will (verse 2), I will be different because the will of the Gentiles (in this context, heathen) is contrary to the will of God. If my goal is to please God, I will be a square peg in a round hole. I just won't fit in. I am indeed a "peculiar people" (I Peter 2:9 KJV).
TODAY'S PRINCIPLE: When a person lives according to the will of God rather than will of the world, he will be considered "strange."
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Have a "strange" day. Love you.
I Peter 4:3-4
"For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles – when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you."
Nobody like to be considered strange, odd, different, peculiar, or weird. I like to fit in and be accepted as normal. Peculiar people are the focus of pity at best and jokes, derision, and ridicule at worst. But if I do God's will (verse 2), I will be different because the will of the Gentiles (in this context, heathen) is contrary to the will of God. If my goal is to please God, I will be a square peg in a round hole. I just won't fit in. I am indeed a "peculiar people" (I Peter 2:9 KJV).
TODAY'S PRINCIPLE: When a person lives according to the will of God rather than will of the world, he will be considered "strange."
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Have a "strange" day. Love you.
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