Are You Normal?

In His book, The Indwelling Life Of Christ, Major Ian Thomas has a chapter entitled, Are You Normal.  Does this sound familiar in relation to the name of the blog?

Eph. 4:23-24 - Be renewed in the spirit of your mind and . . .  put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

"God Himself, as our Creator, always intended that He should indwell us; His cherished ambition was to be seen and heard in those He created. That is normality for a human being, when God Himself is behaving in and through a man or woman. This is the purpose for which He created us, that we might be a physical, visible expression on this earth of the God who is otherwise invisible, as John tells us: "No one has seen God at any time" (John 1:18).

. . . He must be within us the origin of His own image, the source of His own activity, the dynamic of His own demands, and the cause of His own effect.

Therefore if any human being is truly normal in his or her behavior, there is only One Person to be congratulated, and that is God Himself.  Normality for a human being is when God can be seen by anything and everything which that person does and says and is."  Pages 17-18

May we all strive to be normal humans and let Him permeate us moment by moment.

Grace and Peace

Let Him Permeate Your Now

My prayer for all my brothers and sisters in Christ is for Him to permeate your now.  May you allow Him to be your focus moment by moment.

May you allow Him to permeate your now so you can live Christ in this moment and then He can live His life through you.

Grace and Peace

Daily exhorting / Turn to Jesus

Quote from a young man who connects with me daily.

. . . the daily checking in really does keep me centered.
. . . moving toward Jesus and not simply away from what I do not want to be.  I find grace more quickly and get my eyes back on Jesus faster.

Two thoughts -
1)  In Hebrews, it shows the daily speaking together of the Lord is of value.
Hebrews 3:13-14, But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
2)  It is more important for us to move or turn to Jesus instead of just turning away from what gives us problems or causes us to sin.
I say, "Amen."