Reality Check

What is a Reality Check? A definition of reality that you have wrong. Ok, so what is reality? Reality consists of things that we can see because things that we can see are what we call: reality.

So is reality any different between what we can and can’t see? It depends. There is more going on than what we can see so it becomes a personal choice as to whether or not you can call what is going on: reality. There are two very different kinds of reality: 1) on earth and 2) in eternity and mine is #2.

Let me explain where I’m coming from: no one has ever seen God but He is real and one day everyone will face Him and He will become everyone’s reality. So the ultimate Reality Check is to NOW make God your reality. This is not a popular thing to do as far as society goes but right here and now this is your real reality check!

So who is running society and who is defining the ways of the world? Good question!

Well, who got thrown out of Heaven and was given the earth to run? Satan! So if Satan is running the earth then “the ways of the world” are Satan’s ways and therefore society is also being run by Satan! Promoting God as reality is not a popular thing to do as far as society is concerned-Jesus did it and what did He get? Killed! He gave people a reality check and people didn’t like it! He didn’t give them a new set of rules to change the way that they were living, He just redefined reality for them and told them to: 1) Focus on God and 2) Focus on each other. That’s all and He was killed! He was killed because He gave them a reality check and He didn’t just give them ANY realty He gave them the ultimate reality and society didn’t like it! So maybe our definition of reality needs to change! We need to consider that reality is more than just what we can see with our eyes and that’s where faith comes in. Faith is far more than belief in something that we can see or imagine. Abraham had to do more than that! He couldn’t see or imagine the outcome of many things but he believed that God would make it happen and he is our father of our faith.

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In addition to everything else, God created humans because He wanted to spend eternity with SOME of them. He is the potter and we are the clay, so if we are more interested and involved with ourselves than Him then we won’t be spending eternity with Him. Now that’s a real reality check! We’re talking eternity and eternity has no end!

The Bible very plainly and openly gives us suggestions on what to do: it says that our entire heart & soul must be dedicated to Him and just to Him and that’s not what I see happening around me.
We, as humans, are repeatedly and very plainly told in the Bible that man (meaning humans) does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God and that refers to living on earth and living in Heaven. In other words, humans don’t just live on food on earth but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God and a prime example of that in the Bible was the children of Israel. God freed them from slavery in Egypt, fed them and cared in every way for them.

Now, where does every word proceed from the mouth of God? The Bible! So, is the Bible the biggest thing to humans? NO! And it’s not going to get any better because the “way of the world” is dedicated to humans more than to God. The clay thinks they’re better than the potter who made them and the clay just wants, wants, wants more than what the potter gave them! Which is just what the Israelites did. They were never happy and they never had enough and the original Israelites never got to the promised land and I want to get to the promised land. For the story of the Israelites very few of the originals got to the promised land and the Bible plainly and clearly states that: the road is narrow and few will find it, and I want to be one of the few!

As humans there is a great deal of talk about things that apply to “a lifetime” which only means a person’s life on earth but I am concerned with my eternal lifetime which has no end and that’s what I want for you to consider too.

This is not going to be popular for you now but it wasn’t popular for Jesus then but He did it and as his body, we have to do it too! This is a real reality check.

Did the original children of Israel always have everything that they wanted? NO! Did they get the end result? NO! So I don’t want to be like them. I don’t have everything now but I have more than enough now and I want the promise later, I just have to patiently wait for it and believe that it will come and that’s faith.
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Let’s discuss Adam & Eve. They were created and they had a great deal but they wanted something that they didn’t have and they believed the serpents opinion rather than what they had been clearly told by God and I don’t want to be like them! I have been told by God in the Bible so I want to do what God has told me, not what someone else thinks that God meant. They were thrown out of Eden and I don’t want to be thrown out! I would rather simply do what God clearly said rather than let someone else evaluate what they think He meant.

You can do what you want but I will serve the Lord.