Just a Weirdo

  There are times when those of us who are Christians have to bite the bullet and just be weird. The Bible does not bid us to be culturally relevant, we are commanded to be holy as Christ is holy. It is not that we cannot do things that the world does, we have to eat and wear clothes. Chances are we read books and listen to music and watch movies. We just need to evaluate the choices we make in light of Scripture. I have been studying 1 Peter for the past two week and every time I read through the book, I am struck by these two verses:

  I Peter 4:3-4, "For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the pagans chose to do-living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you."(NIV)

  As Christians we do have to live in this world, but we are not a part of it. We are not being washed away in a flood of dissipation. The world is blissfully unaware the path they are on is a downward spiral into eternal punishment because they are too busy living in the here and now. We as Christians are on the path to life. We see the empty things of this world for what they are.
  So we get to be weirdoes. We do not do what everybody else is doing. We are pursuing holiness, not happiness. We need to expect the abuse the world heaps on us in this life. Better to be thought a weirdo now then to hear Christ say, "Depart from me you worker of iniquity, I never knew you."