A Thin Line

I have been feeling a little differently about death lately. I have always felt as if the substance between me and death was thick like a thick, cushiony, padded room (and neatly bottoned like an old couch. It's quirky, I know). Lately I have been feeling like the substance is thin like a placenta.

I heard someone else talk about the following last weekend, and it made me want to look it up for myself. According to Philippians 1:21, "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." What is gain? According to http://www.yourdictionary.com/gain, gain means "increase in wealth; earnings; profit." That sounds like one supreme payday!

Gotta stop for now. More later.

Chosen

I was thinking in the last couple of weeks about "a peculiar people." We have our own modern images associated with the word peculiar. It is a word in modern vernacular that is close to weird. I do not believe God calls us to be weird, but He does want to be different.

Anyway, I looked up the scripture I Peter 2:9, which led me to Exodus 19:5, where these phrases appeared first. They were to Israel. "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation."

In my Bible, Dake's notes on the side make reference to the Greek word peripoiesis for "a peculiar people" and mentions something purchased. Peripoiesis means "a possession, a preservation, and obtaining." I got this information from here: http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=4047

Since I am adopted into God's family, I feel that these words apply to me. I have been purchased. I have been chosen. I am preserved. I am a possession. I am an obtaining. My favorite: I am peculiar treasure! WOW! I cannot fathom why He loves me so, but I am thankful that He does.