What is Normal?

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June 14, 2020 • 02:00

What is Normal?

During the past month, a discussion was entertained during which someone posed a very good question.

“What is normal, anyhow?”

A large part of the ensuing conversation revolved around trying to arrive at the ANSWER to that question.

A person can KNOW he just asked a good question when the question sparks a number of answers.

A person can ALSO know his question was a good one by the amount of enthusiasm which accompanies those answers.

Finally, a person can tell his question was a good one iF the answers to his question caused those giving the answers to stop for a moment, pause and consider what their answers might be.

“What is normal, anyhow?”

The person who asked this question hit a trifecta. Not only were there a good many answers, the answers were enthusiastic AND some thought was involved in (most of) the answering.

More than a few answered the question with what they felt a good definition of “normal” would be.

“The usual.”

“Run-of-the-mill.”

“Whatever is ordinary.”

“Business as usual.”

“Normal is whatever you’re expecting it to be.”

One answer involved a description of what “normal” would look like.

“If you wake up and go outside and see cars parked on your street? That is NORMAL if there are usually cars parked on your street. If you wake up and there are no cars parked on your street, that is NORMAL if no cars are usually parked on your street. IF there is a reason for a change in the number of cars parked on your street, that does not change what is considered normal.

I guess you can find out what is NORMAL by comparing what usually has taken place in the past with what is happening right now.”

One answer involved a description (paraphrased) from an article [The Bells and Whistles of a Normal Day].

Each and every day, modern man turns to a number of “items or features that are useful or decorative but not essential” in order to reassure himself that the day is a “normal” day.

For some, it is the turning on the radio each morning on the way to work.

The radio announcer’s usually-cheery voice while spewing odd bits of information (the traffic, the weather, the week’s popular movies and songs) reassures the listener that all is right; that this day will be much like the ones which came before it.

That this day is “normal.”

IF the day was NOT “normal,” the announcer would tell the listener and give him a “heads up.”

Would he not?

For others, it is something familiar, yet simple.

At last, someone offered an answer which was not only useful but could be applied to most people’s lives.

“Normal is whatever you’re used to.”

And this is true.

What would have been considered ABNORMAL and unusual or perverse just fifty years ago can–at a later date–be considered “normal” because it is what one grows used to.

Any number of modern behaviors which are normal would have been considered to be reckless or unwise or stupid just fifty to one-hundred years ago.

Such as ingesting drugs for recreational purposes.

Such as risking your job or career to steal something from where you work.

Such as verbally attacking US leaders in public because one disagreed with them.

Now, such behaviors might not have involved immediate disagreement. BUT such behaviors would usually be greeted with eye-rolling or shakes of the head.

What is considered “normal” often becomes “normal” because that behavior is–over time–glorified or promoted by the government or the “voice of the people,” the media. Folks no longer consider a behavior “out of bounds” because once it is written about regularly, most consider that “everybody does it.”

“What is normal?”

Many consider “normal” to be like whatever happened yesterday or the day before.

The Deception that Tomorrow Will Be Much Like Today and Yesterday

NORMAL is whatever most folks consider NORMAL to be.

Whether it is good, bad or ugly, if most folks consider something to be normal, it is.

This is a good way to watch for end times events.

Whatever is radically different; whatever is changed; whatever is unlike what came before it.

Those are descriptions of NOT NORMAL.

And the end times are NOT NORMAL.

“And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.”
–Mark 13:37

IS the reader waiting for things to “get back to normal“?

What if things NEVER return to the “normal” the reader was expecting?

What if the reader is deceived and doesn’t recognize what “normal” really looks like?

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

MORE: Eternal Salvation Through Jesus Christ: Salvation Messages from End Times Prophecy Report

[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 10, 2020.]

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