Abnormal

God isn't normal at all, He isn't!

If He is, you'd see lightning zaps every hour on bad guys and flash floods every now and then to wipe us clean so He can start afresh. He'd be like granting your every wish. I think Bruce Almighty the movie portrays a 'normal god', that is limited by our human minds, just like when Jim Carrey a.k.a Bruce got his power from god.

So if God is abnormal, He'd have a abnormal Son right? That's where Jesus comes in, since beginning of His birth, He hasn't been really humanly normal, born into a virgin womb, ditching parents to stay in the temple to debate with scholars and teachers, healing the sick, proclaiming to be Son of God, transfiguration, dying on the cross, resurrecting etc etc etc.

So, think one step further, God made us in His image, so we being called sons and daughters of God, are suppose to reflect God in our character, meaning we can't be normal!

Then why do Christians always run around being normal, hohoho, some of you gonna fire me for saying this! But really, think of it, passing by this earth living like any other human, is not what we were made to do.
Well, here is a passage from Luke that shows Jesus telling us that we should be different going against the flow of the world:

32 "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' love those who love them.

33 And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that.

34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' lend to 'sinners,' expecting to be repaid in full.

35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
-Luke 6: 32- 36

In one way or another, this illustrates that Jesus meant us to be different, not in just those ways, but throughout the bible, we are meant to do a lot of things that are against the flesh.

Now practical terms:
Should we be contented to just scrape the day by, by just studying, going to church, grow up, find a job, get married, buy a house, buy a car, then have kids, retire and die?
I think not, we should do more, we have the great Lord our God as our Father, how can we just do all the small things and not expect bigger things to come?
We must pray for God's will to unfold in our lives, if God truly wants you to be a office boy or a toilet cleaner, then by all means do it with all your heart, but pray for more, more i tell you, so that your life here won't be in vain.
I'm not asking you to be a super Christian and save a thousand souls a day, i don't expect you to be Jim Elliott and change the world or be like Billy Graham. Just be who God wants you to be and not looking back with regrets.

I hope this post will make you think, if you have problems with it, i be more than happy to hear your thoughts.
Time is running out. Don't wait anymore. March on, soldiers of Christ!