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WHAT IS REALITY?
To us mothers, the reality of life is the day to day responsibility to manage our homes; feed, nurture, and train our children; and everything else that clamors for our attention. But there is another reality, a reality that has the power to affect our daily life in our home. It is the reality of the heavenly.
Colossians 3:1-3 (NLT) states: “Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.” These words seem so far from our experience, don’t they? And yet this is normal Christianity. The realities of the heavenly realm are the TRUE REALITIES. The eternal realm is the real world. This world is passing away. It is like a vapor that appears for a moment and is gone.
When we focus our ordinary, daily life on the eternal, it takes us from the doldrums to delight, from misery to the miraculous, from pre-occupation with self to praising God. Instead of being overwhelmed about all we have to do and all our problems, we lift our eyes to Christ who sits at the right hand of the Father. We give our difficulties to Him. Nothing is too big for Him to handle. He never gets in a state of confusion or tension.
Instead of being conditioned by the delusionary mindset of this world, we train our children in the light of eternity and for the eternal realm. We lives as “strangers and pilgrims on this earth” (Hebrews 11:13).
Moses gave us an example. In the midst of impossible circumstances He kept right on going, keeping His eyes on God, the one who is INVISIBLE! Hebrews 11:27 (NLT) says: “It was by faith that Moses left the land of Egypt, not fearing he king’s anger. He kept right on going because he kept his eyes on the one who is invisible.”
Live in the true reality today. The invisible world is more powerful than the earthly world.
Love from Nancy Campbell
