Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents…
(1 Peter 2:11)
9 great ways to be extremely strange:
Love – Loving others even when others may seem unlovable.
Joy – Being joyful, in spite of the circumstances around you.
Peace – Providing a calming peace to those around you.
Patience – Demonstrating patience even in chaos.
Kindness – Being kind to one another, even when others aren’t so kind.
Goodness – Not advocating perfection, but genuinely striving to be a better person and serving as a witness to that endeavor for others.
Faithfulness – Standing firm with loyalty and commitment to Christ, even when others are rejecting what’s true.
Gentleness – Not wimpy, but carefully balancing strength and truth with grace and love.
Self-Control – Disciplining self to live out a strange kind of life, often sacrificing what’s temporary for what is eternal.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
(Galatians 5:22-23)
