Day 57: Living Daily in Reality: The Great Mirage
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What we see then in this present world is the “great mirageâ€(cid:157) – what
the world and our life would be like if there was no God.  Our mental
and emotional life is the result of living as if there is no Creator –
as if we had made ourselves and are dependent on the world itself for all
that we need.  So we see a world as it would be if no one had made it
– as if it had resulted somehow from the chance clash of protons and
neutrons.   And we ourselves have developed mental and emotional
lives where our emotions are dependent on our outward circumstances, our
minds upon their ability to manipulate things and people to preserve our
own existence, and our wills are the passive executors of the effects of
the outside world.

Thus we are looking at a temporary, slow-motion video of the real world
and the real us that exists.  Our Maker has made this possible so that
we would have a real choice to make between what he has made and what
life would be like without him.  So we ourselves are what we would be
if he had not done anything about it – indeed the great purpose of our
lives is to see how he has actually made us – and to allow that to come
into existence here on this planet.  Similarly the purpose of the
world is to allow us to see clearly what life without Him would be
like. “For we are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus…â€(cid:157);
this has enabled us to make our own choices, pervert our natures, and
adversely affect other lives, yet the Christ in whom we exist has borne
all the effect of what has been done in him – and, out of love,
sustained us and filtered it all through his own body – and passed to
us only what we’re able to bear and stay alive!

So, whether you’re Hitler or yourself, you are part of the one great
human who is also the only son of our Creator, and your twisted nature
with its manipulating mind, self-gratifying emotions, and passive will
has been borne by our Maker’s Son, moderated daily by Him here on
earth, and can therefore be expressed by you if you are willing.  Our
error is that we think in our pride we can fix it all ourselves, but that
self-centered perversion of our self-consciousness is the heart of the
problem itself – it is incapable of fixing itself – hence the failure
of all our self-help techniques.

We are alive on this planet so that we can see clearly what life is like
without our Maker and to experience what he has made of us in the
supra-temporal world that quantum physics points to.  So your daily
life is a unique experience that your Creator’s Son is effecting in
order to let you acquiesce in his understanding and will so that he can
live the life he has planned. This is what gives life and makes sense
of everything you do and say and think.  This is the great purpose of
your life – not your success or fame or prosperity – though all of
those may be involved; but the great purpose of your life concerns you

and our Creator’s Son – you are a dear part of Him – he yearns for
the person he has made you.  In the words he uses in Jeremiah – he
calls you “my darling childâ€(cid:157).Â

Our dear Maker does not want robots – he does not want sycophants or
prisoners or sick parasites.  He wants other children like his
only-begotten son, whom we know as Jesus Christ.  That’s why he made
us part of him – so that we would have the same kind of life as he
himself has – so that we’d come to know the same kind of love that he
and his son have for each other.  But this all necessitates us seeing
what this life is like compared with its opposite; we have to know why we
are the way we are and we have to understand what the alternative of
nothingness is like.  All of this was borne by the Jesus of whom you
are part – so that we experience only as much of it as we can bear –
filtered through his kindly fingers.  This is why we’re here
temporarily on this earth.

So, let’s look at the sense this reality makes of your life.