The Law of Abnormality

Genesis 3:7, "Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves."

One of the greatest abnormalities of human history has been the fall of man. In our day we see it as normal for man to have a sin nature, but according to divine design, the sin nature or fall of man was an abnormal event. God never intended for man to deal with sin or sins affects. Therefore the outcome was abnormal. "So they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves."
This is what we can call the "law of abnormalily." We find ourselves confused and bewildered when we are in abnormal situations. But not many know of the unchangeable forces at work. They just know that something is wrong and they are confused on what to do about it. So lets talk about those forces. As scripture has identified, humanity find themselves doing really strange things. Think about it for a minute. What do you think was going through the minds of Adam and Eve? Suddenly they realize they are naked and they are sewing together some leaves to cover themselves. Don't you think there was this unspoken question in both of their minds asking, "Now, why am I doing this?" Or something like, "This is odd, I never realized this before." The question is still the same, why am I having to do this? You maybe asking the same thing right now. You identify with Adam and Eve and you are silently asking yourself, "why am I having to do this?" The answer like the question is the same, abnormality. The reason Adam and Eve are sitting there looking at each other doing something they have never had to do before is the same reason you are sitting where you are do/dealing with something you have never had do/deal with. Because it is not normal. It is not what was intended to be normal. We have lost a sense of normalcy. We say, "what is normal?" But what is normal is Adam and Eve hanging out in the garden with complete innocence communing with God. We find that hard to believe but it is true. God's normal is not our normal. Our normal today is really abnormal. The reality that Adam and Eve were putting leaves together to cover themselves was abnormal. Something that was not intended. The fact that you are having to go to a lawyer to counsel for divorce, or sitting with a funeral director to plan the memorial for a loved one's death, is abnormal. It is not what God planned as normal. But because we have been thrust into a world of abnormalities we are thrust into situations that are not normal. It is like a scene I recall from the movie "Young Frankenstein." The character Igor was sent to get a brain for the Dr. Frankenstein's creation. He initially grabbed the brain of a intelligent person, but to only drop it and damage the brain. So he grab the next best thing with was the brain of, as he described, A.B. Normal. Our nature and our environment is A.B. Normal. We think in abnormal ways. We reason abnormal things. We have to some point began to reject what is normal for what is abnormal. Not because we were given anything abnormal but because as the apostle Paul has said we exchanges what was normal or original for something abnormal. So what we find rulling over us is the "law of abnormality." Simply stated, abnormal situations force you to do abnormal things. Let's take divorce for example. The law of abnormality forces you to make decisions that you should never have to make. Like, who gets the kids or how much of the property is mine and how much is yours. And you find yourself asking the question why am I having to deal with this. You ask that because you would have never had to in a normal situation. But because this situation is abnormal you are having to do abnormal things. You are being forced to do something that was never intended for you to do. These are forces we can not control. Death would be another example. The question,"Why." The simple answer, "abnormality." Because God never intended for us to die in normal circumstances, but because the norm is abnormal, we sit asking ourselves why. The law of abnormality forces us to make decision or deal with situations that are abnormal. So what we are faced with is can we make good decision in abnormal situations. Can a person make a right or wrong decision when their spouse informs them they are leaving them? I know some of you are scream out "sure you can!" But have you ever had to make those decision? Has your spouse ever left you? If not how do you know? The law of abnormality demands you to make the best decision you can based on a situation that in normal circumstances have never happened. Because the truth is death, divorce, or any situation in which we sit and ask what should we do, is not a normal situation. Normal situations do not require an answer. Normal situations product normal responses. Abnormal situations on the other hand require us to look for answers in other sources. Sources like, lawyers, counselors, or pastors where we have to ask, "what do I do?" A normal situations provide its own counsel. I do not have to ask what to do because it is obvious. The law of abnormality requires that you go else where to find the answers because it can not provide any. So again, is there a right or wrong answer in an abnormal situation? The answer is obvious. You can not look at an abnormal situation through the lens of normality. You can not give advice to someone who is going through an abnormal situation from a normal perspective. You have to realize the law of abnormality is controlling the situation and you can not deny it's force. I know that there is some super Christian reading this saying that God can. To them I ask, will He? He can but does He have to? If He did we would not be missing our loved ones or even asking ourselves why? But we do miss our loved one and we do ask why. The law of abnormality does not over ride the power of God, God over rides the law of abnormality. The proof is in the cross. God intended His creation to live forever in commune with Him and never have an abnormal day, but He allow us to trade normal in for abnormal. And even in that the cross shines in the face of abnormality. Its stands as a testimony of what was to be normal and what was lost. But also as a testimony of what can be. That the only right answer in the face of an abnormal situation is the cross. The only comfort in abnormal circumstances is the cross of Jesus Christ. The law of abnormality is at work in all of our lives, but few recognize it. The law of abnormality is at work in lives all around us and few us are compassionate towards it. Normality is not always a luxury we have. The answer to what is normal is found in the cross of Christ. It is at the cross that we trade abnormality in for normalcy. It is only at the cross of Christ we find the power over the law of abnormality.