What’s Your Normal?

Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Luke 12:32 (NKJV)

What do you consider normal? Is it normal for you to feel sick and tired all the time? Is fighting and conflict normal in your relationships? What about financially? Is it normal to be out of money at the end of the month?

Your normal is all you can ever imagine for yourself, and it may be limiting you. You see, you will live in your “normal” for the rest of your life. You might have a month of surging ahead in some area, only to slide back down to what’s normal unless you renew your mind to a new normal for you.

Maybe you’d like to do devotions or read your Bible more regularly, but you find it so hard to get into the habit. That’s because it’s not your normal! Imagine yourself there first. Imagine yourself enjoying some quiet time with God every morning before the day gets hectic.

Maybe you’d like your kids to go to university to achieve their dreams but no one in your family has ever gone to university so you just can’t picture it. It’s time to get a new normal! Think about it until you can see it.

You can change your normal. Radically determine in your mind that you refuse to accept the normal you’re currently experiencing. Tell yourself, “This is not normal! I will not live like this!”

Even if where you currently are is pretty good, remember that good is the enemy of best. If you want God’s best, you have to stop being satisfied with good enough.

Keep going for better. You can live in God’s best!

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