What Defines Us?

Lets go back to what I titled this blog after. Normal. I have spent the last year thinking about this word. Normal…. I posted many articles in the school paper about the definition of normal. I came to the conclusion that everyone has a normal, but that there really is only one normal, and that is what God says it is. We can argue and think all we want on what is normal, what is okay, or in a sense justified, but the plain truth is, if it does not line up with him, it is abnormal, and plainly sin.

What is shocking to me, Jesus was the only normal person to grace this planet. It is without a doubt that he was. He lived the life that man was meant to live from the start. He lived in complete submission to the father. After all it was he who said, “Your will be done.” Jesus lived a life of holiness, and purity, and he did not defile himself. Yes he was tempted, but he did not give into it.

We see the same story in the book of genesis, man is tempted, and yet he submits to sin. Why does this happen? BECAUSE WE ARE NOT NORMAL. God’s intent was for us to stay in the lines that he had created, and yet we crossed them, forcing God to take something natural and sacrifice it for our abnormal behavior.

What is even more shocking is that we as humans have become so accustomed to normality that we have literally accepted sin as normal. This is scary. If we become so drowned in the fact that, “everyone does it,” than we are accepting sin as normal, and rebelling against God. We are saying yes to something that God does not see as natural. This is seen in same sex marriage. Or to be more exact homosexuality.(To clarify, I do not hate them, and I have many friends that are, but I do not agree with them, we need to pray for them.) The world no longer views having a sexual relationship with the same gender as sin, in fact it has become so common. People have forgotten that it is a plan of the devil. Satan wants to destroy the very fabric of our existence. The firs thing God established was marriage and the family. Satan knows that if he can get that everything after that will fall apart.

But we have become so passive, that many Christians are accepting same sex couples as God created relationships. The real point is, homosexuality is real, and it is a real temptation. Many men and women deal with it, but just like we view killing, or fornication, it is sin. It’s rebellion. And it is not the only abnormality that is being accepted.

We are in a dangerous state, if we think we can define what is normal. That job is only left up to God.