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
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Indwelling Life of Christ, Ian Thomas
From his book, The Indwelling Life of Christ, All of Him In All of Me, Major Ian Thomas states,
"The human spirit is that part of us where God lives within us in the person of the Holy Spirit, so that with our moral consent (and never without it), God gains access to our human soul. This is where He Himself, as the Creator within the creature, can teach our minds, control our emotions, and direct our wills, so that He, as God from within, governs our behavior as we let God be God.
"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit" (Galations 5:25), and this is what it means to walk in the Holy Spirit; to take one step at a time, and for every new situation into which every new step takes you, no matter what it may be, to hear Christ saying to your heart, "I AM," then to look up into His face in faith and say. "You are! That is all I need to know, Lord, and I thank You, for You are never less than adequate." Page 22
The Lord is the strength of my life. Psalm 27:1
"The human spirit is that part of us where God lives within us in the person of the Holy Spirit, so that with our moral consent (and never without it), God gains access to our human soul. This is where He Himself, as the Creator within the creature, can teach our minds, control our emotions, and direct our wills, so that He, as God from within, governs our behavior as we let God be God.
"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit" (Galations 5:25), and this is what it means to walk in the Holy Spirit; to take one step at a time, and for every new situation into which every new step takes you, no matter what it may be, to hear Christ saying to your heart, "I AM," then to look up into His face in faith and say. "You are! That is all I need to know, Lord, and I thank You, for You are never less than adequate." Page 22
The Lord is the strength of my life. Psalm 27:1
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