While out for my walk this morning I was listening to a recent pod cast with Darin and Aimee entitled, Glossy Eyed Spirituality.
To paraphrase what was being shared succinctly; to be a Christian and to be “normal” was to not be, spiritual.
I love these thoughts from Oz Chambers; “To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps: the ocean has a shore. The shallow amenities of life, eating and drinking, walking and talking, are all ordained by God. These are the things in which Our Lord lived. He lived in them as the Son of God, and He said that “the disciple is not above his Master.”
Our safeguard is in the shallow things. We have to live the surface common-sense life in a common-sense way; when the deeper things come; God gives them to us apart from the shallow concerns. Never show the deeps to anyone but God. We are so abominably serious, so desperately interested in our own characters, that we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of life.
You can read it all here.
For me, the growing reality of knowing, experiencing and living in the total unconditional love of God my Father is that which is freeing me to be more normal than I have ever known, thing is, as Darin pointed out, to be “normal” is viewed as being less than as far as being spiritual.
Rich
