Normal

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.
If you, O Lord kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.
My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.
O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.
-Psalm 130

On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means; 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
-Matthew 9:12

Max Lucado's Cast of Characters is an excellent book. Today I was reminded to be normal. Many people are scared of Christians because they appear all high and mighty. May I never be deemed high and mighty but a sinner covered in the blood of the Lamb. When people look at me, may the see Christ and nothing else.

"A woman in a small Arkansas community was a single mom with a frail baby. Her neighbor would stop by every few days and keep the child so she could shop. After some weeks her neighbor shared more than time; she shared her faith, and the woman did what Matthew did. She followed Christ.
The friends of the young mother objected. 'Do you know what those people teach?' they contested.
'Here is what I know,' she told them. 'They held my baby.' "
-story from Landon Sanders recorded in Chapter 2 Matthew: Friend of Flops