WHAT IS YOUR REALITY?

Once in my life, I thought that when you are in Christ everything will be okay...

fools become wise

the Poor has plenty

struggle is overcome

prayers are answered

miracles happen

oppression will stop

sick are healed

dying are restored

dead are resurrected

But as I grow older, I realized another reality of being in Christ...

the faithful struggles

the poor remain poor

prayers are not answered

good people get oppressed

injustice happens

good people get abused

death occurs

suffering visits

sickness inflicts

troubles disturb

Then as I continue to go closer and deeper in the understanding of Christ, there is a much higher reality I came to understand. In this world, having Christ does not mean the absence of evil or a bad circumstance. But rather it means…

having Faith in sickness

having faith amidst seeming silence of God

having faith in trying times

having love amidst hostility

having peace in the storm

having perseverance in poverty

having contentment in lack

having assurance in loss

having hope in the darkness

having salvation for the lost

having redemption in sin

Because in Christ, the darkest moments happen to be the brightest revelation of HIS presence. In Christ, no one is a loser because we already know the story from beginning to its ending- Jesus won!

It is not our present circumstances that define the presence of God. What defines His presence is God’s character, God’s love- His perfect love towards His children.

Paul in the final argument of his presentation on justification wrote the most appealing God-centered assurance, Romans 8:35-39

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For your sake, we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Isn’t life hard? Yes, it definitely is, but we are not tired. Because for the children of God, it is not about who we are or where we are. What matters is not our circumstances but the reality that we live in Christ. Rich or poor; comfort or discomfort, Christ is our Emmanuel (God with us). He said it and we believe it!

I am inviting you to this reality because God's reality is much bigger and wider than our reality!