"And be not conformed to this world..."
Several years ago, my parents and I had taken a trip to Duluth, Minnesota one summer. We were walking near the canal and just people watching. As I watched all the people walking by us, I noticed one couple in particular. They just seemed...different. The lady was dressed modestly and the both just had a joyful, peaceful countenance. This was even before I was saved and knew the Lord, and yet, watching them made me think "I wonder what they believe." Now, I don't know what this couple's beliefs were, or even if they were Christians, but I did notice they believed in something that made them noticeably different.
There is another instance when a difference made an impact on me. This also was before I was saved. I was driving from out of town for church on the weekends and would stay with a young married couple from our church. Their home was "different." I noticed for the first time, people who sought to live for the Lord all the time! Whether it be the music they listened to, the way the spoke, the way they dressed, the way they treated each other. It was so different from the world! It made such an impact on me. I saw they were real! Their true heart was to be set apart from this world for Christ.
I want to do this too and encourage you to also! Let's seek to show this world we are different! I so wish I could share with others how a lost soul seeing a difference in a Christian person makes! What if that couple I stayed with had been just the same as every one else? I would not have seen what a life that seeks to please Christ in every area looks like! I am so thankful for this Christian couple's testimony to me!
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord..."
2 Corinthians 6:17
"Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. "
Titus 2:14
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:"
1 Peter 2:9
