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\"Response<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Normalization<\/strong>: Any process that makes something more regular typically means conforming to some regularity or rule. To cause something previously regarded as anomalous (aberrant, incongruous, abnormal) to be accepted, as usual, thereby altering the accepted norm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just returned from an IMED trip to India. Every trip to a new environment brings unexpected revelations. It is interesting how people normalize their environment. A person is born into or raised in an environment that becomes their ecosystem. It is all they know. They don\u2019t see activities as abnormal. As an outsider, the same activity seems strange and out of place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Normal?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When I visit Africa, they live in houses with dirt floors and no electricity or running water. They don\u2019t go home to watch TV or surf the internet. But they dress impeccably. They are happy for the most part. They have the same concerns as most people regarding politics and the staples of living, but the scale is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I travel to South America, they live by a little higher monetary standard. They have electricity and running water but must deal with the Cartel. A certain amount of money has to be paid for security. To them, it is the way it has always been and will always be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My trip to India was noisy and chaotic. One of my friends described it as someone kicking over an ant hill. Honking horns seemed to be the primary way of steering through traffic. Crossing the street is an adventure; there is never a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behavior has been normalized to all the people who live in these environments. They don\u2019t see it. It is the way it is and will be. There are so many experiences in our lives that have become normalized. Over the years, modern society has accepted more deviant behavior as normal. Children born in this century have been raised to believe that behavior that a few decades ago was unacceptable is now standard. It is so normal that one cannot speak against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As outsiders, we should see it differently. It should seem strange and out of place, but does it? Have we normalized behavior that is unacceptable to God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greatest Commandment<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

What should our response to this new normalized behavior be? The answer lies in the Book of Mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark 12:29-31<\/a><\/strong>, \u201cAnd Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none another commandment greater than these.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first part is to love God. Jesus is quoting right out of Deuteronomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deuteronomy 6:4-5<\/a><\/strong>, \u201cHear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our love for our Savior dictates our behavior. One of the most significant indicators of this love is to keep his commandments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua 22:5<\/a><\/strong>, \u201cOnly be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a broken world, that means not letting the new normalization creep into our lives. It is holding to a standard of behavior that pleases God. It is not compromising when the world screams for compromise. Do not go along just to get along. Loving God is holding to a single truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Second Greatest Commandment.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

But loving God is the first part of what Jesus had to say. He also said that we should love our neighbor as ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leviticus 19:18<\/a><\/strong>, \u201cDon\u2019t seek vengeance. Don\u2019t bear a grudge, but love your neighbor as yourself, for I am Jehovah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compassion and grace should be the leading indicators that we are children of God. As we deal with people who do not share our Biblical perspective, we must remember who we are. Biblical doctrine and theological preference are not more important than love. We must stay steadfast to the truth but not in a way that condones loveless behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.  – Anne Lamott,<\/strong> on page 22 of Bird by Bird<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am uncomfortable with some of the life decisions I see being made by others. I have to remind myself that I am only responsible for the decision I make, not the decisions others make. Non-believers do not operate on the same set of standards. Before salvation their lives are given over to sin. The only way to have a meaningful dialogue is to be a person with whom they want to engage. The life of a believer must be seen as a better life than the life of a non-believer. \u00a0Presenting truth must be accompanied by understanding. They don\u2019t prescribe to what we believe. Until they see the benefit of God\u2019s love, they will not seek change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I wrote recently about \u201cLove\u2019s Reaction to Anger<\/a>.\u201d In that post, I tried to present that anger over sinful behavior is Biblical, but we should guard against our reaction to that anger. Sin causes us grief; the sinner is caught under sin\u2019s influence. Our goal is to influence the person controlled by sin to seek deliverance. That cannot be accomplished outside the umbrella of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can be absolutely right in your point of view and ineffective in your communications of that view. The object is not to be right but to be effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 John 4:7-10<\/a><\/strong>, \u201cBeloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love. In this, the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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