Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters where we

devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys.

Alas, we are picking up with a new devotional in the Bible app titled Better Than Normal.

There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along with us and

as always I'm going to read the scripture then Tori's going to pick up with the Divo.

Let's do it. The scripture is Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 9 and it says this,

the human heart is the most deceitful of all things and desperately wicked.

Who really knows how bad it is? The devotional is titled What Is Normal and it says this.

Normal means conforming to a standard type or regular pattern. The term normal usually refers

to something that's typical or natural or something that most people do and abnormal appears

to be the opposite. With that in mind we'll define normal in the following way. Behavior that is

typical, expected and adjust to a standard that society has put in place. But with the amount of

people who live on planet earth is it even possible to say something is normal? What may be normal

in one culture may not make any sense in another? At times our idea of normal gets hijacked,

which causes us to panic and not know how to respond. When will things go back to normal?

Is a question we ask when things stop feeling normal and when we're in a challenging season

where the end date seems unattainable? But eventually we get our feet steady and we say

something like well I guess this is our new normal. What's so appealing about normal after all?

Well we usually know what to expect and we find comfort in it even if it's not good or healthy.

But comfort doesn't always equate to health. So what if we choose to look for a life that is

beyond the concept of normality? What if we pursued a life that is better than normal?

As followers of Jesus we're called to live differently. The world tells us to follow our hearts

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