Not Normal

Not Normal

This morning after reading My Utmost for His Highest (February 10), I spoke  aloud saying, “Why is it so convoluted…the normal thinking person wouldn’t understand a word of it!" Then the forceful voice intruded with: “None of My children are normal thinking!” I had to laugh, and said, “You’re right, Lord!” …

Because we aren’t!…

The author, Mindy Silva, writes about what is normal and what is not. I have said that the definition of normal has been turned up side down in recent  years.

So, no, “Normal” is not something we are. We went from the world’s “normal” to uncommon…uncommon Christianity…

 We don’t even go where “normal” people go! We don’t drink, and we don’t party. We don’t curse and tell people where to stuff it, now do we? (Although some most likely do in the back of their minds!) We don’t envy, we don’t murder, we don’t commit adultery, we don’t worship anything or anybody but Christ…

So, no, “Normal” is not something we are. We went from the world’s “normal” to uncommon…uncommon Christianity.

But Christianity doesn’t allow for a middle road. We can’t please the world by operating as the world does once we know who we are in Christ.           

We can’t blend in folks, we are to stand out. This is the gist of Christianity. And that is the difference between not being normal, and trying to be.  

Jesus taught Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

Read the whole article here:

http://www.raptureready.com/soap/silva-mindy10.html

Just some random notes

Americans are enthusiastic about the promise of science but lack basic knowledge of it, with one in four unaware that the Earth revolves around the Sun, said a poll out Friday.
The survey included more than 2,200 people in the United States and was conducted by the National Science Foundation.
Ten questions about physical and biological science were on the quiz, and the average score -- 6.5 correct -- was barely a passing grade.
Just 74 percent of respondents knew that the Earth revolved around the Sun, according to the results released at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting
in Chicago.

"STOP WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE!!!

A couple of years ago an undergrad went to the campus of UCF with a sign that said "STOP WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE!!!" and asked students to sign the petition to end the brutal act. The undergrad stayed there all day long, gathering signatures, the entire time, students going on and on about how much women had suffered and that the suffrage MUST be stopped!! Only ONE student stopped with a stunned look on his face, knowing what this meant...he's a Korean exchange student.

John Kerry Calls Climate Change a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'

Secretary of State John Kerry today spoke in stark terms about the dangers of climate change and compared those who deny it is happening to people who believe the world is flat.
Calling climate change "catastrophic," Kerry called on Indonesia's leaders to work on cutting greenhouse emissions.
"Climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction," he said.

I have your dog

An anonymous announcement in the New York PETS section of CraigsList shared a tale of redemption about an abused dog that was found in 2011 and has been recovering and thriving since being adopted through a rescue group. (We have messaged the author to ask their name but have not heard back yet.)
Three years ago on Feb 9th, you were evicted from apartment 13B at 20 Catherine Street and your old red pit bull was seized by animal control and taken to the kill shelter. She was really skinny and had bad skin infections, and had been bred A LOT. She'd even had a Caesarian, judging by the scar. They said at the kill shelter she was 12 years old. She also had a lopsided face and it looked like there were a few cigarette burns on her head/ears.
I figure you were having a pretty bad time of it, since you were being evicted. I hope things have gotten better for you in the intervening years. Although it's unlikely you'll ever see this note, I just wanted you to know that I have your dog and she is doing great.

Are you rapture ready?

Specifically Abraham

Specifically Abraham

I got absorbed in the Good Book a while ago. Specifically Abraham. Lot of people read about him but they gloss over some juicy stuff. Most people know that he was 99 years when Isaac was conceived, but they don't really notice that Isaac  was,  most likely,  in his twenties when they went to the mountain to make the sacrifice.

Sara was 124 years when she died, so she lived to see her son grow up, and be a man.

After Sara's death. Abraham was ready to pack it in, so he made his servant take an other to find Isaac a wife. The servant did that, and Isaac moved his new wife into Sara's house. Abraham apparently like that and he stuck around.

Abraham married again when he was, most likely, about 130 years old or older, and had 6 kid. He finally died at the tender of 175.

Wonder what the neighbors thought about a old guy marrying a child bride of only 62? I don't know the age of his bride, but he got the job done.

 It's a good day.