Reality or Fantasy?

That which is of God is Reality, and all else is Fantasy.

Looking back I am surprised at how little is taught in all our Christian
venues of the essential meeting with Reality.

We sing hymns and don’t see beyond the words set to music.

We go to classes and don’t hear an imperative voice directing us to our

true Destination.

We read magazines about outreaches, programs and words of
encouragement.

We study apologetics and theology and the “how to” of evangelistic
outreach and yet we are not shocked with the impartation of Life.

We talk about Life, we sing about Life, we testify about Life and yet...

Somehow in it all, with all our looking we fail to see, and with all our
hearing we never hear the one essential thing.

Like the people in Jeremiah (2.13) we have forsaken the Fountain and
dug cisterns which are broken.

What we have, and practice, has lost all semblance of that thing which
God intended.

Our churches and our lives were meant to pulse with the very life of God

and yet this has been changed to talking about Him, perhaps on a level,

as Tozer said, of explaining the obvious.

As a church worldwide it would seem that we declare as Lord Byron,

“My days are in the yellow leaf,

the flowers and fruits of love are gone,

The worm, the canker and the grief,

Are mine….”

Two sins says Jeremiah...a forsaking and a digging.

By how far a distance have we left…

And to what places of stupidity has our superficiality or the man centered  “gospel” of our man engendered “interpretations” led us.

Mega-churches with multi million dollar "entertainment centers"

“Christian” cruises complete with “Christian” entertainment.

Trips to the “Holy Land” - for what?

It won't do us any good unless we can see that He is crucified day by day in every habitation of man,

every street and every city in this vast world of ours.

"His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn, His cross is every tree."

In a poor and bleeding world, to what better use could our millions of

dollars have been put.

How many things to rise up in judgement against us!

Heaven weeps and God says,
“How many times would I have gathered you.”

There is yet, a Place where He meets His own,

a Place beyond time and circumstances,

a Place in the Spirit realm where all of earth is left behind -

a Place where it is just Himself and His own.

This is the Reality beyond all we see and know through earthly eyes.

“To day if ye will hear His voice” (Ps 95.7)- He calls us to know Him Who

is the Eternal Fountain of Life beyond measure.

And He promises us, “ye shall seek Me … and I will be found of you”
(Jer. 29.13,14)