# is God weird? A look at weird. What does the word weird mean? What is the opposite from weird? ## Dictionary: ``` weird: (adjective) suggesting something supernatural antonyms: normal ``` ``` normal: (adjective) conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected. (Noun) the usual, average, or typical state or condition. ``` ``` connotation: (Noun) an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. ``` Weird is Normal. Normal is weird. Because everyone and everything is weird. Everyone and everything is normal. You might be wondering why we are having this conversation at all then. It because some people consider themselves normal. And they consider the things they do normal. And they consider other people and the ways other people do things or the way other people look weird. Let me ask you something... What is wrong with being weird? (That is the problem, we think being weird is a negative thing.) Nothing. (Nothing is wrong with weird.) What is wrong with being normal? Everything. (From a Christian perspective.) God didn't call us to be normal. He called/s us to be weird. He called us to be different. Why does the word weird have such a negative connotation? It's because there are people in the world who think they're so great, so cool, and so normal and they look down on people who are different from them. The title of this piece... "is God weird?" I want to come back to that question. What makes God normal? What is your standard of a normal God? People have been creating gods in their image for years. And so by many people's standards the one true God is not normal. He is out of this world weird, different and amazing. --- One of the biggest things that makes God different. Is his love. > "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8 Some (other) things that make God weird... ### 1. God's ways are weird. > "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:8-9 ### 2. God's life span is weird.(Sleep Schedule?) > "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding." - Isaiah 40:28 ### 3. His location is weird. > "Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." - Joshua 1:9 In Psalm 139 David wrote a few verses about trying to flee from the presence of God. > "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" Psalm 139:7 Isn't weird how God loves you so much that He always want to be near you? ### 4. His eyesight is weird. (Or maybe it is his eyes.) > "The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good." - Proverbs 15:3 ### 5. His people are weird. (Or at least they should be.) >"For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth." - Deuteronomy 14:2 Well that is it for this episode of Daily SunShine. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. If you love hearing though provoking, and bright, defiantly bright thoughts. I want to encourage you to hit the subscribe button wherever you are tuning in. Wether here on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts. And as always.. I want to encourage you to think about what you just heard. And today I just want to close out by challenging you to be weird. ### Links: [Daily SunShine Website](https://dailysunshinewithncr.weebly.com/) [SunBible](https://the-sunshining.github.io/SunBible/index.html) [Daily SunShine Merch](https://my-store-11528458.creator-spring.com/) Desktop Wallpaper:
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