Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Deuteronomy 26:16-19
by: Gabrielle Watt.
The Israelites were informed by God that they were “[H]is peculiar people” (v.18, KJV), His special treasure, and therefore held to a specific standard of living. God wanted His people to understand that they were different from all other people: having a different God; a different set of beliefs; a different standard of practices; a different group of associations; different expectations; and a different dwelling. If we are to be God’s people today, we should expect some things to be different for us than the world. Are you embarrassed to be different? Do you work to blend in with the world? Be careful to wholeheartedly live as God’s people in the world.