There is this song that I heard while I was running. It goes something like, "I wish that I could be like the cool kids, cause all the cool kids they seem to fit in. I wish that I could be like the cool kids, like the cool kids."
It goes on to say that the girl doesn't walk the straight line and the cool kids do, or something like that. It was funny that I heard that on a day that I was thinking about what it meant to be like everybody else. I have always been a friendly person and can talk to just about anyone. To me there is always a difference between being friendly to people and others thinking of you as a friend. Sometimes I feel that I don't have very many friends and it makes me want to "fit in" with those who do. In reality, I should not want to fit in and I should be happy that I don't. I have always been the kind of person that marches to the beat of my own drum so to speak. I say random things at random times, think random thoughts at random times and I am pretty much random. I don't support the social issues that are popular to support. I spew words out of my mouth that don't always make sense to others. I don't care for the beach. I am a Christian who chooses not to drink and I wear modest clothing. I could go on and on about what I do and don't do, how I think and what I like, but I won't. My point is this... why do we want to fit in? Especially if we are Christians.
I have been out of high school for 11 years now and cliques and fitting in are still issues. They may not be the jocks, cheerleaders, band nerds, drama and debate kids and so on, but they are still there and very apparent if you look around.
We shouldn't look like the rest of the world. The world does not like God's word. We can't live in rebellion like the world does. I do fit in with the body of Christ, even though we are all different. We should stop caring about how others see us and care about how God sees us. He loves us. We should love one another and share in each other's joy, sadness, fear and everything as a church family.
2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Luke 6:26 Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
James 4:4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
To end this I will just say that my family loves God! We pray before we eat, in public or at home, it doesn't matter! I pray that my fellow Christian friends can be their own person too and not fit in with the world! We shouldn't want to "be like the cool kids". And in my opinion, we are the cool kids anyway!
God Bless!
