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ABUNDANT LIFE THROUGH HOLY SPIRIT LIVING
“WHY NOT BE UNCOMMON? # 1

Acts 10:15
“And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.”

John 10:10
“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

God has designed that the saved person can be uncommon. Far too many Christians are common instead of uncommon. Oh that we might be moldable in the hands of the Lord for Him to make us what He would have us to be. In the case of Peter and Cornelius, it was essential for God to work at both ends in order to bring both men together. An angel appeared to Cornelius, informing him to call for Simon Peter to come to his house and he would more fully explain the way of salvation. On the other hand, the Lord had to prepare Peter and make him willing and ready to go to the house of a Gentile. Now the Lord said to Peter concerning the things which were in the sheet. “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.” Oh what God touches, let us not question. How guilty we are by measuring everything by our own standard. Why are too many Christians common?

When anything has become customary, usual, familiar, or of general occurrence, practice, and standard, that makes it common. Common implies the lack of distinguishing, conspicuous, or exceptional qualities. It suggests that which is usual and ordinary. Most Christians are common because they desire to be like others. They do like others do. They live like others live. They act like others act. They dress like others dress. They justify themselves that they are just as good as others, do as much as others do, give as much as others give, all because that is the way everybody else does. They compare themselves among themselves and measure themselves among
themselves and rise no higher than others rise.

Should this be the way it should be for us as Christians? I will give you some thoughts on this subject in the next few Nuggets of Gold.

Russell Stolp
Chaplain, CFO

Psalm 37:4 "Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart."
Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy
ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.