Day 22: Living Daily in Reality: Our Real Environment
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Living daily in reality means living in things as they really are.
Yesterday we talked about the futility of life when it’s lived in a
closed universe, i.e. when you think that reality is this little earth
spinning through limitless space with no comprehensible origin or
purpose. It seems impossible to get from the things, people, and
circumstances around us the security, significance, and happiness that we
seem to need. What is our real environment?

The reality is that you personally have a loving Father who made you in
his only son so that he could live the life in you that he planned. His
only son explained this all to us when he lived on this earth in the
first century – you remember we talked about the historicity of this in
Days 1-6 of our early conversations. He said “therefore I tell you, do
not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall
drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than
food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air;
they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly
Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you
by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you
anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;
they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the
field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he
not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall
we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the Gentiles seek all these
things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek
first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
yours as well. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow
will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for
the day.”

But most of us have rejected this reality and ignored any attempt of the
creator’s Son to live in us. We are full of ourselves and our needs and
desires, and have become little willful egotists who regard God as a
myth. Because our creator knows there is no one except him and because he
loves us and has given us free will, he has allowed us to spoil the world
if we wish and to despise and hurt him and ourselves in his son. But in
his great mercy he has limited that by creating time while in eternity he
has forgiven and put his son within us. The result is that each of us may
choose unreality or reality, life on our own or Christ’s life in us, this
transient life or eternal life, life as it seems to be or life as it
really is.