Deuteronomy 14:2-For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, treasured above all the nations that are on the earth.

Perculiar=periousios in the greek. Costly, treasured, select, specially chosen. Selected by God from the other nations for his own possession.

Different! This is the identification given to those who belong to God through Christ Jesus.

When we got saved and accepted Christ as Lord and Savior by faith, God adopted us into His family. Ephesians 1:5-God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.

Did you hear that? God decided to take us as His own. We did not choose Him, He chose us!

The Apostle Paul described our old man, the person we was prior to salvation in Ephesians 4 as darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed..

Separated, set apart for God’s services? Different? Indeed you are! No longer the same, no longer on the path of destruction and death, but on the path of righteousness and life everlasting with the Father in heaven because you are "different."

We ARE the children of God! Glory Hallelujah!!!

We thank you Lord and we love you in Jesus name.

Amen.

Debra

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