So many times I hear believers say "no one ever understands me." At times I can even say that I have felt that way. I can confess to feeling misunderstood and allowing those misunderstandings to cause me to shut people out.
I was up late last night and God spoke to my heart while I was reading and I heard " I didn't call you to be understood by man, I called you to understand Me." I had, had a eureka moment. I began to study about understanding myself and being understood by God. This is what was laid upon my heart.
1 Peter 2:9-10 (KJV)
9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
After reading this I said to myself, wow God you called me peculiar and to me that means strange. To me it means that everyone is not going to understand me. They are not going to understand what I do or what I say. The fact that I am strange reassures me that I have been called out of darkness into His marvelous light. So now I embrace when I hear people say I have never met anyone like you.
www.thedictionary.com defines peculiar as:
1. Unusual or eccentric; odd.
2. Distinct from all others.
3. Belonging distinctively or primarily to one person, group, or kind; special or unique
The fact that I am a peculiar person means that I stand out, that I am different and that I may be misunderstood by those who don't understand my God. As we begin to understand God we begin to understand ourselves. We begin to know who we are, what we were created for and even our purpose in life. God tells us in His word in John 15:19: 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Those who have no understanding and no desire to know God will never be able to understand the peculiar person that He has made in you.
As we study God's word and we begin to understand Him, and the plans that he has for us, we become less concerned with what the world thinks or believes. Now don't get me wrong I am not saying that everyone you meet will not understand you because, God has given many eyes to see and an ear to hear. What I am saying is that as believer we should not seek understanding from this world but from God. We should not seek to understand one another but to understand God because in understanding Him, He will show us our Brothers and Sisters the way He wants us to see them.
When we seek out to know God for ourselves, we get a better understanding of His spirit and how it operates. Psalms 147:5 says 5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite. The understanding we should seek should be His understanding and once we get understanding in Him the world will no longer mater. God's understanding is infintite, it is never ending. Even when we don't, won't and can't understand He does.
Today I leave you with this :
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there isany virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
