Being Peculiar

The word peculiar in the Bible doesn't mean what most think it means. It does not mean strange or different. It is often taught that we should look and act different from non-Christians because we are to be a peculiar people. I DO think we should look and act different than the world but not to be peculiar. We are to come out from among them and be separate. Peculiar means to specially and singly belong to another. 

I believe completely that when a couple enters into marriage they should become peculiar to one another! They should belong SPECIALLY and SINGLY to one another for the rest of their lives. That doesn't mean there can be no other friendships or family or work relationships but they should feel that my husband or my wife belongs to me. No one else gets to have the same relationship with them that I do. Hence the phrase "my". Seeing couples who have stayed happily married well into their old age makes a beautiful picture. 

Likewise, the Bible says that God wants us to be peculiar unto Him.

God says He is a jealous God. He doesn't want us to have someone or something more important to us than Him. He wants special and single ownership of us. Just as a husband and wife want single ownership of one another and when they feel that is threatened at all they become jealous; God also becomes jealous when His ownership is threatened. We were bought with a price...the precious blood of Jesus. God has every right to expect that we belong singly to Him.