What does it mean to be normal? Maybe we've gotten it wrong this whole time,
Is it normal to speak in tongues, a heavenly language between our spirit and the Holy Spirit? Is it normal to have visions? Is it normal to prophesy? Is it normal to dream about events before they happen?
Is it normal . . . is it normal . . .
Maybe we've been hindering ourselves, and God, this whole time with our obsession to be normal. I can't count how many times I've heard "This is weird, but . . ." coming from Christians who then go on to describe things that are, in fact, very biblical.
Have you ever read Ezekial? How about Jeremiah? Try reading the book of Revelations. Old Testament and New Testament prophets saw essentially weird stuff.
Maybe when we begin to step into our inheritance, when we begin to "walk in the Spirit" (Galatians 5:16), we start to realize that God isn't 'normal.' He doesn't fit into our nice, neat, suburban box of who He's supposed to be and what He's supposed to do. In fact, He's offensive in how loving He is, how gracious He is, how powerful He is. He's offensive because He tells us, grown adults, that we have to completely unlearn our independent ways and become "as little children" (Matthew 18:3) in order to enter the kingdom of heaven.
And maybe it's not God that's weird. Maybe the weird ones are the people who refuse to acknowledge that this world is more spiritual than natural, and that when this life passes away only the unseen eternal things shall remain.
Is it possible that the world's gotten it backwards this whole time?
" . . . While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."
