Whose Reality Is It?

It's been awhile since my last post and wisely so - what's the use in posting something up here for all to read unless it is worthy to read. Here's something I think is worthy to read:

In my talk with God this morning, I read Proverbs 3:5-6. I wrote this prayer based on that passage:

“God, help me to trust in You, not in the way I think things are, but in the Way You see them to be.”

We need to trust in God’s reality, rather than our perception of reality. If I had understood this as a young Christian in college, I don’t think my road toward maturity would have been quite so bumpy and curvy. Notice in these verses that when we trust in God’s view of reality and acknowledge His reality, then our path will be made straight – in other words, His guidance in our lives will be clear as a sunny day. But when we trust in what we think reality is, then His guidance will be far off – His light will be at a distance – and we will get off the straight way toward holiness because we can’t see what straight really is. And after a while we begin to like the bumpy and curvy road, when in God's reality, it does not truly satisfy us, because (in God's reality) it delays our ETA toward holiness and true fellowship with God. We are not satisfied because we are not living in the way we were created to be - holy, or wholly. Holiness brings wholeness to us. When we are not wholly, then there is tension. When there is tension, there is lack of satisfaction. When there is dissatisfaction, there is frustration. When there is frustration, there is hopelessness. When there is hopelessness, there is death.

Why should I trust in how I think things are? Why not trust in something, or Someone, Who is not bound by the limits of time or space?

In that trust there is satisfaction - yes, a hurdle built of faith to leap over - but a deep satisfaction.