What is Reality?

John 16:13 ESV 

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Recently a couple of comments made by my children got me to thinking about reality and what is truly real. One day my son who is a law enforcement officer on a University Campus stated that he didn't feel like the "real' police. And one day my youngest son who suffers from Autism spoke about his post high school education at a state run training school. As we drove through the campus of the University of Kentucky, he stated: "I wish I had gone to a real college like this"!

Beloved, how often do we think of who we are and what we do as being inadequate, at least in the world that we live?

My friends, each and every one of us is given a clear path to walk by God, and we are guided on that path by the Holy Spirit. 

My advice for my sons is that what you are doing and what you have done, truly is making a difference. When we do things in love of God, we call that ministry, and when we do things in ministry, they are truly real.

This does not mean that we should stop wishing and hoping and dreaming for better and bigger things, but it does mean that we can be and should be happy about the amazing things that God has done in our lives already.

The true reality of our existence is that God created us, God loves us so much that he gave His Son to die for us, and that Jesus is coming back. Until that time God has given us the Holy Spirit to walk with us step by step and to guide us along our way. 

Beloved this is the true reality that we can trust and it is the true reality that we can trust with our past, present and future.   

Be well in the reality, truth, and promise of God, this day and always.

Pastor Tim.