Adopting a New Reality

Allow me to share a personal experience with you.  Yesterday I took a day off.  I mostly filled it with catching up on sleep and watching movies and especially series.  The series I watched was about a time on earth after a nuclear war.  I spent hours watching episodes back to back, always curious about what is happening next and truly living into what I saw.  At the end of my day, everything felt so surreal.  It felt like I needed to convince myself of the reality of the birds and the trees outside.

At this stage in the day it was already after sunset and quite late at night so the darkness around me even gave it a bigger effect.  At this point I realised something; I was so busy the entire day living into these episodes and the situations that these characters had to deal with, that for a moment in time, their reality became mine.

So, why can’t God’s reality be ours.  If we spend all our time or most of our time in a day, focused on what the world says and the situations you find yourself in… things might start to look pretty gloomy.  The world we live in is a rat race for time and money.  If this is all there is to life then we might as well end it now. 

Spending time with God, and spending all of our time with God, is what will make our reality shift from our limited one, to His eternal and true reality.  This is where we need to be.  God needs to be our only reality.