They Think We're Strange?
Coincidence? No, more-so God led....
I just read this Scripture and was going to post about it, but then I found this in my fb memories. So, I'm reposting....
1 Peter 4:3-4 KJV
For the time past of our life may suffice us
to have wrought the will of the Gentiles
(referring to their pagan and ungodly ways)
when we walked in......
--> lasciviousness = driven by lustful behavior
--> lusts = longing for what's forbidden
--> excess of wine = drunkenness
--> revellings = carousal, letting loose
--> banquetings = drinking bout, carousal
(Carousal means the activity of drinking alcohol and enjoying oneself with others in a noisy, lively way)
--> and abominable idolatries = ungodly idol worship, worshipping the will and desires of the flesh
Wherein THEY THINK IT STRANGE .
THAT YE RUN NOT WITH THEM
to the same EXCESS OF RIOT (UNSAVEDNESS)
speaking evil of you.
It seems strange to those who do these things that we are not doing the same ungodly things.
Some will even speak evil things against us because we don't.
Because there is a way that seems (appears) right to humans, but its end leads to death. (Prov 14:12, 16:25)
They do not realize or understand they will one day stand before and give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. (1 Peter 4:5) Unless they repent and change their ways.
It seems odd to them, but we are not seeking to please man.
We are striving to please Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous Light.
So that we will one day hear Him say "We'll done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter in."