Strange Behavior

No one likes to be called "strange."  Words such as bizarre, eccentric, peculiar, weird, alien, curious, and odd can easily be substituted for the word strange.  Maybe "strange" doesn't sound so bad after all!

 

We are to be good stewards of God's grace and that calls for "strange" behavior – at least by the world’s standards.  First Peter 4:4 points out the world will think it "strange that ye run not with them," which the Greek interprets “to assemble or be in union with.”  If we are obedient and have the "same mind" as Christ (1:1), such strangeness may seem uncommon but is just-right for the Christian.  And since “strange” is actually in the eye of the beholder, when God is the Beholder – go ahead, be strange!