The Father's Menu

The Father's Menu

Apostle Dr. Richard Udoh

Sunday, December 27, 2020

CALLED TO BE PECULIAR

God has called us to be peculiar – to stand out from the rest of the world as living proof of His power and His love. The most common usage of the word peculiar today is referring to someone or something that is strange, odd or uncommon. However, the dictionary tells us this word is used to describe something or someone that belongs exclusively to some person, group or thing.

In 1 Peter 2:9, Peter isn’t saying Christians are odd or unusual people, even though the world often looks at us that way. Rather, this verse is saying believers are people who belong to God, they are His own possession or God’s own special people. Peculiar in this verse is referring to fact that believers are “special people” because they were chosen from the foundation of the earth to be God’s own possession.

Those who are born again are different from the world around them because they are being transformed by the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, they are also different because they have been born again by the Spirit of God and have received the right to become children of God (John 1:12)

Confession

I am God’s own purchased special person; I am righteous; I am holy; I have been called out of darkness into the kingdom of God’s marvelous light. I am chosen, Glory to God!

Further Reading

1 Peter 2:9 (AMP) “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God's] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

John 17:15-16 (NKJV) “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.  16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.”

Read through the Bible: 2 Chronicles 32 & Revelation 18