“Why fit in …”

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” asks Dr Seuss.

Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ were born again to stand out in this world.

We are aliens. We are strangers

This is what Peter says in First Peter 2:11:

“Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against the soul.”

Let me say here that all the letters in the New Testament are written to believers, to true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let me also emphasize that the Apostle Peter is URGING believers to abstain from sinful desires, which war against the soul.”

And the question really is: Why fit in with the sinful desires of the world, which war against the soul, when we were born again to stand out in the world as aliens and strangers?