Have you ever wondered why we don’t walk on our hands and eat with our feet?  These are the kind of question you get when you have children. 

But seriously, wouldn’t that be so much more fun?  Maybe for 30 seconds till all the blood rushed to your head and you were about to faint.  

 Ultimately, we know this would not work out so well, mostly because everything around tells us to flip over.  And most importantly gravity is quick to remind us that our heart is meant to work with gravity as it circulates blood throughout our body.  And when this is interrupted or flipped upside down it doesn’t take our bodies long to realize that something is not the way it was meant to be.

Although we might think it would be fun and exciting to live and see the world upside down, everyone would agree that the most productive and fruitful way to live is in being truly right side up.

What if I were to tell you that in reality, we are all living an upside down kind of life? 

 Maybe it would be easier for us to understand if I say it this way, that if you and I begin to live upside down we will actually begin living right side up.  (say this again)

 It is kind of like a pineapple upside down cake.  It is really right side up when it is on the plate upside down.

 I know this all sounds a little backwards and confusing, but think about this way. God made all of creation and when He had finished he said this is very good, everything was right side up.  But then man and woman thought that they knew a better way and together they decided to flip upside down what God had created right side up.  

The Bible describes this in Genesis 3:8-14

 Once sin entered the world men and women throughout the ages have been living upside down while God has been trying to teach and lead us back to right side up living.  I know it seems crazy, but today, all these many years later, we have grown so accustom to upside down living that we have actually bought into a lie and think that it is right side up.

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