Aliens

Living on a different planet.

This though occurred to me in a staff meeting about how to manage stress:
We are spiritual people living in a natural world, so there is always going to be some stress/tension 'cos this is not our natural environment. It's a bit like when astronauts go to the moon- they have to take all sorts of precautions because the environment they encounter is alien, it is fighting against their bodies and would eventually destroy them if they were not protected against it.

Have I lost the plot here? I don't think so 'cos Peter compared us to aliens or exiles living on this earth.

Though alien makes us think of little green men with antennae and boggly eyes, this is the dictionary meaning
alien noun 1 a foreign-born resident of a country who has not adopted that country's nationality. 2 especially science fiction an inhabitant of another planet. 3 bot a plant introduced to an area by human agency rather than by nature. adj 1 foreign. 2 (usually alien to someone or something) not in keeping with them or it; unfamiliar.

So... the point I am making is, we are meant to be different, to feel a bit odd. We are spiritual people in a largely non-spiritual world. We are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven living here on earth. The world is full of natural people, but we have been born again supernaturally, they are part of the old creation, but we are new creations.

Jesus talked quite a bit about how different we are:
We are a city on a hill, a light in the darkness.
We are known as His and will be rejected as He was.

So, we are odd. A peculiar (or distinct) people!