What is normal for people made brand new? What is usual, typical, what should be expected? Brand new things are normal, and the abnormal are those things of the old.
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (II Cor.5:17)
Speaking the life saving gospel to strangers is not unusual or strange; it is the nature of the faith of Christ to be doing so, and His faith was authored for us: our faith is Christ’s received. What is strange is to not be living out this faith in word and deed.
For those made new in Christ it is normal to walk the streets and speak life to those who have yet to believe; even my walking down the street has become brand new.
I am a new creature, I should expect for my faith to overtake my self-consciousness. I am a new creature, my conversation with people should prepare them to believe. I am a new creature, the common occurrences of my life should be seen by people unto them glorifying our Father in heaven.
The faith of Christ determines what is normal or abnormal for me. The world no longer provides me those definitions; I do not accept their explanations. Christ has described our normal living in Luke 4:18,19 “…He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”
I am indwelt by this Spirit; I am anointed by the life within. These are the days of acceptance if we will have them; what a strange thing if healing and deliverance and recovery and liberty are not pouring from my mouth. I am new, I am not old, and these things are the life of the new.
Father, thank You for your gracious patience.
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