On Monday’s episode I closed our time together noting that while it is great Christ that was born into this world, it is more important Christ be born in you. Let’s consider this thought further and from a different angle.
“Jesus, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous for good works.” Titus 2:14
I picked this passage because it uses the word “peculiar.” As Kenneth Weust says, “Christians are the peculiar people of God.”
This is a word sometimes we use for people who are odd or strange. I have definitely met some people who claim Christ and are strange but that is not what is meant here.
The word here in the original language is a compound of two words, “around” and another word “to be”. Mentally, picture a circle with a dot in the middle.
As the circle is around the dot, so God is around His people. He has the dot all to himself. These people are His own unique possession. Peculiar!
There are days when my obedience and pursuit of God, on a scale of 1 to 10, I would put at a 7 or 8. Then there are those days or seasons, where things just are not going well. I might put it at a negative 5.
God is the constant. In speaking about the believer’s security, Jesus says, “My Father, who has given me (the sheep) is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.” John 10:28
Good seasons and bad, we are circled by the Father. Keep that picture in your head and let it be and encouragement. As a believer, we are God’s circled people. His possession.
So, the different angle is, this season, it is not only to have Jesus in us (Colossians 1:27) but also, us in Christ (Colossians 2:6). What a beautiful gift!
S.D.G.