{"id":5537,"date":"2024-04-23T03:37:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T03:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2024-04-23T03:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T03:37:30","slug":"consistent-abnormal-becomes-the-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/23\/consistent-abnormal-becomes-the-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"CONSISTENT ABNORMAL BECOMES THE NORM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Theodor Erismann,  conducted an  experiment by fitting his student  with goggles that  made everything appear  upside down. Up was down, and down was up<br \/>\nit was very difficult for the student to adjust. Walking was difficult .Seeing smoke falling from a match or water pouring upward gave him weird sensations. After 10 days he started to adjust , He was able to do everyday activities.  He  walked  and even rode a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>Is our world normal? It may seem so, but it\u2019s not. Many are wearing upside down goggles. What is right and worth of respect has been substituted with all over praised  evil and crookedness of the society .Just like the days of Isaiah, gall is as  sweet as beverage ,light is darkness and unholy revered. What a mess! In our situation, this may include  corruption, violence,idolatry, immorality, LGBTQ  just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>But the good thing is that Christ came to set the crooked straight and to offer a real norm for the perverse generation. Coming to him sets the abnormal norm The children of the light are able to distinguish light from darkness. They embrace the light and abhors darkness. They call a &#8220;spade a spade and not a big spoon&#8221;. They will always condemn evil even  when they appear odd or misplaced!<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nProv 17:15<br \/>\nMal 2:17<br \/>\nLuk 16:15<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed day \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Professor Theodor Erismann, conducted an experiment by fitting his student with goggles that made everything appear upside down. Up was down, and down was up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions\/5539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}