The Death of Outrage - or not

A friend made comment to me the other day that he is amazed that the Death of Outrage is now complete. He wondered what happened, noting that Satan has been very effective

I do not know that the death of outrage is complete. Outrage may be severely suppressed, however, though not to the point of being extinguished as evidenced by my friend

Consider:

It has been said that the thing to which one is repeatedly exposed is the thing that is normal. "Normal" is an experience which one adopts as at least a portion of their lifestyle. "Normal" is different and unique to each person

Matters that should be considered outrageous have been, and so have become, a typical and common element of present life experience for almost every adult and for far too many children

Thus, the death of outrage. The outrageous becomes normal

One of the worship leaders at a local full gospel church, has spoken the last two Wednesdays regarding living victoriously. [One who lives victoriously lives successfully; but one who lives successfully does not necessarily live victoriously] Anyway, last night, the speaker included comment from Jeremiah 29:11-13, regarding the fact that our Father in Heaven has a plan for each one of us: the plan for Ken is not the plan for Joe; the plan for Bob is not the plan for John. One of Joe’s "made to measure" suits does not and will not fit John. Just so, the plan for Joe does not fit John. The plan for John does not fit Joe

Each of us was created with "free will," however. Thus, each of us may choose to follow or to not follow the path that the Lord has for us to follow in Jesus

Analogous to each of us having an unique plan that was divinely preordained for us to walk, each of us also has an unique "normal" that is defined according to what we have chosen to expose our selves, to experience. It seems Satan's will is that we choose to experience and normalize the outrageous, and the World has been choosing to comply

It has been said that one may not appreciate what is good unless one knows what is bad. This seems to be a word (a message) of Satan. Many people have "bought in" to this word and have decided that it is good to experience what is bad so that what is good may be properly or fully appreciated. This is a "slippery slope," however, similar to Lot progressively pitching his tent toward Sodom, until Lot came to the point at which he was actually a leader of Sodom! (Genesis 13)

Rather than this word of Satan, why may we not choose to experience only good and appreciate good such that the worst we experience, the worst we know, is merely good? Why may we not be like our Father in Heaven, in whose presence bad is not capable of existing, and in whose image we are made? Why may we not choose to know good so that we truly appreciate great; rather than to know the outrageous so that we may appreciate merely good?

Being proactive, rather than merely acquiescent, in the creation of one's "Normal" may require concerted effort