{"product_id":"navigating-the-new-normal","title":"Navigating the \"New Normal\"","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy printer has been “acting up.” Eventually I will have to buy a new one, but for now shutting it down and unplugging it seems to clear the problem and resets it. Like many of you, I wish the year 2020 had a reset button. Between the Covid-19 pandemic, riots, fires, storms, and general uncertainty, this has been a year we would all rather forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne phrase from 2020 has crept into our vocabulary, and it may be around for a while. That phrase is, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The New Normal.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow are you handling\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The New Normal”\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThree things have helped me to navigate \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The New Normal,”\u003c\/i\u003e and I hope they help you, too. Those three things are:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Knowing that God Never Changes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Knowing that God’s Word is True\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Knowing that God’s Promises Will Never Fail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGod Never Changes—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHe is Merciful\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEven in \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The New Normal”\u003c\/i\u003e God never changes. He is merciful. Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, was written around 430 BC. At that time, many Jewish people had returned to Judea from captivity and were busy rebuilding their shattered lives. But at the same time they were dishonoring God. They continued to worship Him, but that worship was cold, formal and insincere. They offered the sacrifices required by the Law, but gave God their worst—their leftovers and cast-offs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn response God said, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person?”\u003c\/i\u003e (Malachi 1:8). The people deserved to be punished severely, but God showed them mercy. In Malachi 3:6, He declared \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGod’s Word is True—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is Trustworthy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEven in \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The New Normal”\u003c\/i\u003e God’s Word, the Bible, is true. It is trustworthy. In 1776 Voltaire, the French Philosopher, arrogantly declared, “One hundred years from my day there will not be a Bible upon earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker.” Voltaire died in 1778. Fifty years later his house in Geneva, Switzerland, was being used by the Evangelical Society of Geneva as a warehouse and distribution center for Bibles and religious tracts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bible is an ancient book, but it is not an outdated one. Millions still find peace, comfort, correction and direction in the Bible because it speaks clearly to the issues of today—the issues of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePsalm 119 has been called “The Song of the Book.” Nearly every verse of this magnificent Psalm speaks of the Scriptures themselves—God’s “law,” God’s “testimonies,” God’s “precepts,” God’s “statutes,” God’s “commandments,” God’s “judgments,” etc. Psalm 119:89 declares, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGod’s Promises Will Never Fail—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHe will Keep Them All\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEven in \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The New Normal”\u003c\/i\u003e God’s promises will not fail. He will keep every one of them. The Bible is full of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“exceeding great and precious promises”\u003c\/i\u003e (2 Peter 1:4).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePromises of Forgiveness:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon”\u003c\/i\u003e (Isaiah 55:7).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePromises of Cleansing:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” \u003c\/i\u003e(Isaiah 1:18).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePromises of Renewal:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”\u003c\/i\u003e (2 Corinthians 5:17).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePromises of Relationship:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name”\u003c\/i\u003e (John 1:12).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNavigating \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The New Normal”\u003c\/i\u003e may be challenging. But my hope is not in the return to the way things used to be pre-2020. My hope is in a Person, my Savior, Jesus Christ. Is He your Savior too, or do you just know about Him? Listen to His words in Matthew 11:28, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”\u003c\/i\u003e Turn to Christ—come to Him today. Admit your sin, humbly ask Him to save you and He will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlessings to you!\u003cspan class=\"Apple-tab-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– Daniel E. 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