A New Normal

What do I mean?

Let’s say you lost your arm, and now you only have one arm. Does that mean you can’t live a full and fulfilled life? The answer is obviously no. Will life ever be the same as it was before you lost your arm? Again the answer is no, but there can still be an abundant and fulfilled life.

What do I mean?

While nothing will be the same as it was, God has got a new normal for each and every one of us. Yes we’ve had a loss. Yes we’ve suffered abuse. Yes we’ve endured one disappointment after another, but it doesn’t mean that things can’t be made new, that we can’t have a new normal.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

You can be made new and whole once again, not only spiritually when we come into that saving relationship with Jesus, but we can also become new emotionally, where we face our day with a new perspective and a new hope.

Solomon said,

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12)

When hope is lost, when our dreams are shattered, or left dormant and undeveloped being imprisoned by our character, manipulated or paralyzed by other people’s opinion, broken due to heartbreak, or hidden beneath the shattered ruins of past mistakes and sins, we lose hope.

But hope springs eternal and you can have your hope restored by looking to Jesus instead of the circumstances of life.

This is the message I want to share with you, that your life can be changed from hopelessness to hopefulness, from the feeling of having little or no value to an understanding that we have a great value.

What I want to do is to help you walk along this journey with me, this journey to true spiritual transformation.