Thursday, January 25, 2007

• The Quest to Be Normal

  When I stand at the corner of Chicago Ave. and Washington St. I feel like I’m facing
  the whole world. Sometimes it’s hard to cross that intersection and plunge into it;
  I just don’t fit in.
  
  For months I’ve been asking myself, “Why can’t I just be normal?” I’ve gotten kind
  of tired of being different all the time, always having to explain myself, and always
  being stared at, laughed at, and rejected by people in the world. Life would be so
  much easier and more fun if I could just be like everybody else. “For I was envious
  of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked” (Psalm 73:3).
  
  But God is not silent. He says in John 15:18-19, “If the world hates you, you know
  that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would
  love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,
  because of this the world hates you.”
  
  Hates me. I can’t be just like everybody else. I have been chosen out of the world.
  I can’t be normal. But God has so much more for His people than “normalcy.” His
  people are those who “have turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6)! Why settle
  for normal when God wants me to be revolutionary?
  
  It may not be easy being a true Christian in today’s culture, but God has put me in
  it at this time because He has a job for me to do, and He knows that I can do it
  (John 14:12). What an awesome thought!
  
  Have a great weekend, everyone!
  

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