06/05/2012
Ti:2:14: Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Peculiar in this verse does NOT mean a wierd people. Not a strange people. It means a SPECIAL people. Special to God.
Some of us may be strange because that was how we were made, but that is not what the bible speaks of here. We are not to appear like wierdos, or freaky to people or God. This basically means God loves us. We are each special to Him, if we have accepted the gift of His son, for our salvation.
The good works is not about what we do , but what we want to do. We want to do good if we are His. Not because the Church or Preacher says we have to, but because we want to please Him. Like any loved child wants to please a parent, because they like seeing the smile on the parents face. God smiles on us too, when we want to do good. Even if we fail, He knows we want to please Him and that is what He cares about most. We can't be good anyway, so it is the desire to do good that counts. Any good thing we do is God working through us, not our own doing. So we should not think we are better than another, God is the only GOOD one.