FAITH The new normal

By Pastor Wayne Frater Radium Christian Fellowship Church

What is the new normal? You hear about it, and yet nobody really knows what it is, still we are supposed to accept it and live in it.

Well in my opinion, if we are living for God, the new normal should be the same as the old normal. Hebrews 13:8 tells us that “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.” And if He is the same yesterday, today and forever, then it stands to reason that His Word, the bible, is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Where then should we get our direction on how to live our day to day lives in these times of ‘the new normal’? The news, YouTube, maybe Facebook?

For me the answer is actually simple, I get my direction from His word, from Jesus. No matter what we are going through in these troubled times, no matter what problems may come our way, Jesus, in His Word, has an answer for us. Take time, search out His answer for you. A good place to start is in the Gospel of John. Read what Jesus did, is doing, and what He is going to do. What was normal for Jesus, should be our normal.

He is calling us to live in His normal, today and forever.

Take His word and renew your mind so every thought, every step, is in His normal, in all its forms, in truth, in purpose, and in power.

Do you believe it?

Eph 1:19-23: “And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.”

What is God’s normal for us?

Matt 28:18-20: And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

John 14:12-15: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments.

1 Cor 3:9: For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.

In these times of the so called ‘new normal, Jesus makes it clear as to what we are called to do. We are called, to be about the Fathers business.

After about an hour or so, the shrine is properly ablaze, and the 25-year-olds and 42-year-olds clamber down and abandon their defence of the structure. Everybody and has a big party while one of the largest bonfires you will ever see roars away in the middle of the town square. By midnight, there’s nothing left but ashes, and the festivities wind down.

Blair will be back in Canada later this month, and although it’s been perhaps the best winter of her life, she said she is eager to see her family in the Columbia Valley and is also looking forward to catching up with her library co-workers, and “all my little library friends”.

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